Category: Farming

• WIND LIKE A BLOW-TORCH

  

  ALL DAY YESTERDAY and all the day before that the wind blew hard and hot. Like a blow torch. My skin was black with dust and my hay fever was out of control. The storms and rain last night was very welcome. Though Boo jumping onto the bed when the thunder rolled was not so…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 3, 2018

  Farming, farmphotography, Gardening, Photography

  ducklings, featured, hot winds, magnolia, old sow, pigs, weather

• EVERYONE IS OUT

  

  WELL, Almost everyone.

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 1, 2018

  farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ducklings, farming, pasture, pigs, thekitchensgarden

• THE LINE UP

  

  POPPY’S Six are growing like weeds. They were three weeks old yesterday and I am in no hurry to wean them so they will continue to grow like weeds. 

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 26, 2018

  Farming, farmphotography, Photography

  country, farming, gardening, hogs, pastureraised, pigs, thekitchensgardendotcom, weather

• SUMO PIG

  

  HAVE you seen that postcard with the enormous sumo-wrestler.  He stands with his feet wide apart to support his girth and the small child holding up his belly? (It is not a very happy image but it has been on stands for years you may have seen it). His feet are planted wide apart to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 16, 2018

  Farm Animals, Photography, Sustainable farming

  contry, farming, fatpig, piglets, snow, weather

• LET’S SEE WHAT WE’VE GOT

  

  YESTERDAY I took a few hours off from the farm to go and have lunch with a friend.  I don’t do this often as you know and I never know what I am going to be dealing with on my return.  I left the Poppy’s big door open to the weather so she did not get…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 12, 2018

  Farming, Photography

  chicks, countrylife, farming, hatcheries, piglets, weather