Category: Farming

• Milk bottle from Missouri

  Look what John and The Matriarch brought me back from Missouri.  The label on the back says Flynn milk. I need to try and date the bottle. The theory is that you let the milk sit overnight, all the cream rises then you can pour the cream off without any milk diluting it. Usually I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 1, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  collecting firewood, cream separator bottle, inventions, old bottles for milk, planting trees, separating milk and cream

• Happy Easter – You knew I was going to do this didn’t you!

  The Old Codger chose this years chickens. They are Leghorns. They will grow to be leggy white chooks who lay good white eggs. He thinks they are an excellent old breed for this area. He had leghorns years and years ago. These are in a big tote in the basement with their warm light and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 31, 2013

  Farming, homesteading

  celi, chicks, chooks, Easter chickens, Leghorn chickens, Potatoes are Your Best Friend

• Looking after our canopy of trees

  On the North side of the barn is a smallish field. A loafing field really. It is directly behind the pig sty. We rolled the last two bales of mississippi grass hay through the pig sty and out to the North side, positioning them with difficulty at either end, then built a fence down the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 30, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  firewood, hay, late winter, loafing fields, tree gods

• SUN!

  Sorry, did not mean to shout. SUN. Oops there I go again! but we had the most perfect sunny windless day. Naturally I opened all the windows and doors and spent most of the day outside. That is Tilly on the right, well you knew that, she is still into the panda eyes look. She…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 29, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  celi, daffodil shoots in snow, early spring, hot chocolate, no grass yet, patience, red truck, rooster, the kitchens garden farmy, views of the farm, waiting

• Muffins and Mad Dogs

  My friends the young students, and I made fruit and vege muffins yesterday.   Which gave us plenty of energy for outdoor pursuits. I found this recipe somewhere ages ago and delve into it off and on, using whatever is in the house (that recipe should read one and a half cups of flour) I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 28, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Recipes, Writing

  after school food, dog in snow, farming, food, miss c, muffins, nanny c, parents space, The kitchen’s garden, writing