Category: Farming
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Long Shots, giggly piglets and bottles of beer.
This is the lane from the house to the gravel road. We are looking East. On the right which is the South side is the sweetcorn with the Maize up behind it. You can see how tall the maize (field corn) is when you see my tractor in front of it. Also look at how…
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An Angry Sow is not to be trifled with
Early in the morning as the dawn is dawning I take the tractor out into the sweetcorn field and pick two big bucket loads for the animals. I cut the stalk at the base with my sharp spade and throw the sweetcorn, with its stalk still attached, over the fences. They eat the whole thing.…
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Muddy Piggy Backs!
Piggie’s really DO give each other piggy backs. They climb onto each others backs and rush about honking like little trains having races. I gave them a mud puddle to play in yesterday. Sheila is hoping for cabbage leaves to come flying over the garden gate. Time to prune the grape vine I think! Basil…
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How to settle your 47 chicks in on their first day.
The Post Mistress found a chirping box on her counter when she got to work this morning. She called me straight away and I zoomed down in my little cooking oil car to collect them. I could hear the strident chirping the minute I opened the Post Office door. Forty Seven chicks survived their journey.…
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You write the captions today: A Farmy Fellowship Day.
I have to drive as fast as I can to town and catch the train to the Big City. But first I have to feed or visit all the animals then clean up and put some city clothes on my body. And lipstick, I need to find my lipstick! So my lips do not stick…
The Kitchen's Garden 