Category: Farming

• How to cook and preserve sweetcorn

  You know I have piles of sweetcorn. Actually a patch about 200 feet long (about 60 metres) and 8 rows wide. I think that should do us. As you know I feed a fair bit of fresh sweetcorn and all the stalks to the cows, sheep, pigs and chickens but I still have plenty to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 29, 2013

  Farming, Food, Photography

  How to cook corn in the microwave, How to dry sweetcorn, How to freeze corn, How to make sweetcorn relish

• Trashy novels and the Big Fat Chickens Plan

  In between the weeding and feeding and lifting and pulling. And cooing and catching and patting. And watering and weeding and pruning and picking and shucking and bagging. I read a trashy novel. The whole thing. It is true I am a fast reader.  I am not going to tell you the name of the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 28, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  farming, raising broiler chickens, reading, The kitchen’s garden

• How to unload Ninety bales of hay before Breakfast

  1. Know when you are at your best. And my best is before breakfast. I don’t  know what it is about me but the moment I eat I want to have a wee lie down, (though I am never able to have that wee lie down) so I never eat breakfast until the heavy work…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 27, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cats, dogs, farming, farming by yourself, how to be a winner, how to bring in the hay, how to stack hay, in the barn, roosters

• This is why I can never be called Organic.

  This is Daisy eating her GM free corn stalks.  She always pulls the best faces! Minutes later the little red plane roared back overhead.  And this time the spraying was very thorough and very close. The USDA has approved even heavier sprayings of crops and the soil now. Please be careful of what you eat.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 26, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Food, homesteading, Life

  bringing in the hay, homesteading, how much of my food is safe, life, organic growing, pesticides, sprays

• The Hay Man Cometh

  And he kindly said what an excellent stand of hay, you should get about a hundred bales off that.  Then  he mowed it down to the dirt and roared off down the road! Well, said Daisy. Quite the conversationalist isn’t he? He will be back on Wednesday to see how it is drying and then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 23, 2013

  Life, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  cutting hay, How to make peach chutney, Peach chutney, zuchinni