Category: Farming
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Flying Turkeys
Did you know – well, who knew – turkeys fly? They sure love to be all over the roof of my house, but they talk nicely. Though they do not like to be separated. If they are seperated they cry and pace. Then they will fly. Fly across to their family. Is that why I love…
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Bring out your pumpkins
In America, in the Fall, the people buy pumpkins and put them on their front door steps. Their stoops. An estimated THREE million pumpkins are purchased in the United States during the month leading up to Halloween. Many people carve scary Halloween faces into their pumpkins to keep that old Irish drunk Stingy Jack at bay,…
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The Last Time
Last night I milked Lady Astor, the house cow, for the last time this season. She does not know it yet because she is a cow and though invited to the meeting of me and … um … ‘me’ to discuss the future of her milking season – she had nothing to say other than “What…
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The List
Today I intend to compile your AMAZING list of books. Yesterday evening strong winds and rain from the South were forecast so after the milking Hugo and I closed up the barn, replaced spent light-bulbs, made softer and deeper beds for the pigs and calves, and led the big cows in under the trees with hay…
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An open world
Imagine if we could travel the world and stay as long as we wanted in any country we chose to stay in. Just forget about a calendar, and politics and wander across borders and through towns and out into the wild. No paperwork or begging to stay. It seems that passports came into being around…
The Kitchen's Garden 