Category: Farm Animals

• Free days – when the farm feeds the farm.

  There is something deeply satisfying about eating a meal from your own land, in a room you created. Home grown, grass fed steak, with asparagus from down the back and hollandaise using my own eggs and butter, a salad from the garden, cheese from Daisy’s milk followed by rhubarb from the garden and home made…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 13, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading, Photography

  cultivating the rows, eating off the land, farming, homesteading, images, mothers day, self sufficiency, sustainable life, walking the beans

• small child mobbed by wild lambies

  Armed with his bottle and a layer of extra anti nibbling clothing our intrepid wee warrior climbed into the pen with the wild untamed lambies.   Poor kid never stood a chance. The quads just LOVE him. And only two are bottle fed remember!                 Barely escaped with…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading

  farming, home, home schooling, homesteading, lamb quads, outdoors, winter

• This was not yesterday

  Yesterday I went back through some of our old shots so that I could compile an extra page that new people can refer to if they need to identify one of the animals or birds. It sits up there, (look up) right next to About. It is  The Cast of Characters Page. Do you see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 17, 2013

  Bees, Farm Animals, homesteading, Photography

  cows, farm animals, preparing fields for grass seed, summer, the cast page, The kitchen’s garden, the kitchens garden farmy

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

  And here we are back on the farmy. After an uneventful and long, long  couple of flights to Chicago from Auckland, I was whisked away from the madding crowds of  airport people, with all its suspicion and controlled chaos and driven back to the howling prairies. The wind has been blowing out of the North…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 27, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Photography, Travel

  Barn, cows, farm life, Illinois, pigs, sheep

• Walkabout the FARMY with the Big Animals

  Day Two of the Farmy Round up. Wow. It takes two days to walkabout the farmy now.  So much to see. Here is a grubby Paisley Daisy… ..with her good friend Queenie Wineti.  We tried to breed daisy twice this season but both times it did not take.  Then it was too late in the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 17, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  cows, punkins patch, sheep, skunk, spun wool, The Daily View, wool, Yesterdays temperature