Category: Farming
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Late in the Day
Poor Poppy. We finished the electric fence. She and Manu came walking out. Poppy (the Hereford Sow) touched the fence and squealed with fright, ran to the other side and got hit again, balked, backed up then headed for a corner that was made with hog panels, not electrified of course, backed into it and…
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Pig Vandal
Pig games are very simple. Pig brains are very simple. Contrary to popular opinion pigs are not all that intelligent. At least mine aren’t. Not as clever as my dogs and not as clever as a toddler. No toddler I know is happy to lie under a tree all by herself without a sound for…
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Almost to the brim
Now I have four volunteers and the farm is really humming. I have to be right on task though as they were at full throttle yesterday and working so fast, striking things off the list one after the other – I was having trouble keeping up. Today we are taking down some old fences and collecting all the…
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156 Bales
And all the hay is in the barn and all of us went to bed early last night. Kevin was kitchen Mama yesterday making an Argentinian meat pie and banana cream pie.What a relief it was NOT to have to cook after loading 156 bales of hay. As you know one of the hardest parts of…
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And then there were three
Another woofer arrived today and now I have a crew of three. There is always a kind of shaking down when a new character enters the mix and thankfully this girl is getting along just fine with everyone. So we are good and we are getting Heaps done too! And on Thursday two more people arrive…
The Kitchen's Garden 