Category: Organic farming

• A Fat Farmy Day Drenched in Spray

  Mary’s Cat is being followed and bombed by barn swallows wherever she goes.  (Audrey close your eyes). Because these guys are about ready to take their first flights. They are so patient these little birds. Out-growing their nest and watching the milking from above twice a day.  Did I tell you that their nest is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 17, 2012

  Bees, Life, Organic farming, Sustainable farming

  barn swallows, cats, fat pigs, fattening hogs, insecticide damage, life, pesticide damage

• Off we go for our walkabout on The Kitchen’s Garden Farmy

  Walkabouts are my favourite posts. Today we will wander through the cast of the Kitchens Garden Farm. I could not fit everyone on the one page but you will get the idea. This is The Duke of Kupa.  He has two wives  and spends an enormous amount of time trying to attract their attention.  But…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 22, 2012

  Life, Organic farming, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  bees, Dorset ram, hereford cow, Kitchens’s Garden, peacock, strawberry jam, Suffolk ewe

• Haymaking makes my Skinny Girlie Arms Ache.

  A good ache though. Yesterday I made an electric fence run out the North side of the Barn for our slinky swine. This is primarily so that the pigs can root in the dirt. They get a lot of their essential minerals from the soil.   Daisy and I went through our twice daily routine…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 18, 2012

  Life, Organic farming, Sustainable farming

  cows, hay making, pigs

• Learning Lessons from The Farm

  We had a recovery day yesterday. The little chicks are all doing well. The badly hurt one  may never walk properly again though.  However she is getting herself to her food and drink and stays close to her company through the cage walls. Chooks are pretty tough.  There was the gentle raking of the rained-on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 17, 2012

  Bees, Life, Organic farming, Photography, Sustainable farming

  bees swarming, cow, haymaking, learning lessons from life, pruning grapes

• Hawks Love Young Chicks

  When I returned from buying feed yesterday morning, the guineas were  shrieking up a storm. Imagine a highly strung young matron throwing her apron over her face and running screaming in circles, then you have a reasonable description of the guineas when they see a hawk. The guineas do not yell at cars or stray…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 16, 2012

  Life, Organic farming

  chicks, death, farming, haymaking, marmite, tractor tilling field