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… on a Friday
At last. A warm Friday night. Cold cuts. A jug of wine. Fresh cheese. Fresh Labneh. Chimi churri with kale from the green house. Home made sour dough bread. And those good, good friends – the kiwi builder, (back for a visit) Jake, The Matriarch. And thou. Bliss. That lovely ‘tired from a late night out…
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Farmers Hands
Farmers hands do so much work. All the pigs got the DE treatment. Dust was everywhere. And because Tima’s hair is still growing back she looks like some kind of beacon out at sea. The Big Hereford Pigs are now pie bald. And my farmers hands are dried up and weird looking from the DE.…
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Raw Milk
In the evening, just before the pigs dinner I let them out into the field for a run and a grass munch. There is not a lot of grass yet so there is still a danger of them rooting. So their grass break is not very long. But they eat the whole time.Pigs! Then they…
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Kids and Kunes
This title is a little misleading. I took the kids in to visit with the kunes but they studiously ignored each other. There was no Kids ‘And’ Kunes at all. The pigs were on one side and the goats on the other. I am still working on the field. No sooner do I plug a hole up…
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Up before the Sun
There are many things about farming that I love. One of them is milking. So one of the joys of farming is the early mornings when it is just me and the cow, her calf and the sun rising and the gentle flow of fresh milk. This is a shot out to the West – Before the…
The Kitchen's Garden 