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The First Cut.
The grass hay is down. All of it. Gulp. I saw a window of warm breezes in the weather pattern, with low humidity, so I took a risk and had my hay man mow the first cut of the grass hay. We have even more cows this year, and I do not feed them grain, so we need lots and…
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The Rules
Lately we have had a great number of new arrivals to The Kitchens Garden pages. So for you I will outline the three simple rules that govern my contribution to this blog. (Mine is only the first wave of this blog – the second wave of words is in the Lounge of Comments when you…
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Beautiful Images from my Sister
My sister The Aunt has produced this photographic essay of her week on the Plains for us. A special exhibition for The Fellowship of the Farm She called the file: ” Sisters and Clouds.” Aren’t they beautiful. Much love Cecilia and her Sister PS My sister has asked that you respect that these are from her…
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I Love it.
Eating frozen-cold home made ice cream and drinking really hot Gumboot Tea at the same time. The trick is to take a big mouth of scalding hot tea, swallow and while your mouth is still hot add a spoonful of ice-cream. I love it! Yesterday the girls took over the kitchen (as well as their…
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Siesta
When the farmers in residence and any visitors come to work here I run a very tight time line for each day. They start at 7.30. We work until breakfast, after breakfast we work again. Lunch then SIESTA. Then reconvene at 3pm and work for another three hours, showers, dinner, clean-up, sleep. The siesta (I think)…
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