Category: Farming
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With 35,000 choices a day, how many do you Make On Purpose?
What an enormous question! I don’t feel like I make that many choices a day? I feel tired just thinking about it. And all our choices – even the unconscious decisions – can have a profound effect on the people in our lives, the homes we live in, the planet? From when to sow your…
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The Rooster on the Porch
Roosters have their own territories, especially roosters who do not have a flock of chickens. And often (here on the Farmy) a lone rooster will attach itself to an animal. At least to the area that a particular animal lives in and the promise of two free feeds a day. Let’s be honest!! There are…
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Dawn Chorus – In Surround Sound
The bird song sounds of the dawn caught on video. There are a short few minutes just as the sun is rising when all the birds put aside their differences and pipe in the light. They rise onto their toes in the trees and sing their tiny generous hearts out. As the burning colors of…
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Tima’s Summer Diet
Tima will share her diet with you! She swears by it and at it, sometimes! Timatanga Moana (we call her Tima for short) is a kunekune pig. And kunekune pigs can put on the wrong kind of weight if they are fed the wrong kind of diet. To live a long and happy life kunekune…
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Good morning WaiWai – Rescue Pig
In Maōri wai means water. Wai Wai is a rescue pig and a burns survivor and skin needs a lot of water which is why I called him Wai. When we first rescued him he was dying from his burns, he could not walk and his organs were shutting down but he would drink water…
The Kitchen's Garden 