Category: Farming
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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…
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The Naughty Boo’s Chair
Look at this dog with his mouth full of melted butter. Like butter would not melt. In his big mouth. Now look at the destruction. I shall have to add sunglasses to my shopping list. And he has begun to pick himself sweetcorn too. He leaps at the stalks, grabs the cob of corn and…
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And then the apples began –
Yesterday just as I was getting into the swing of freezing corn on the cob, with the sweetcorn garden relish bubbling away, and the bread rising on the racks above the stove where a tray of sweetcorn kernels were drying, my neighbour popped over with a very welcome bag of tiny cucumbers for pickling (knowing…
The Kitchen's Garden 