Category: Farming
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I lose Sleep so I can a Read
You too!? Hah! We are a pair. 😂 I only have time to read at night. So if it is a good book – I am losing sleep. What’s our next read? What did you just finish? If it is good don’t forget to drop the title into our very own Library! Chicks are here!…
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Turkeys are not Clever
The PopPops are officially released into the big field. And, so far, they have not escaped. And the turkeys have not escaped either! Though I was not trying to keep the turkeys in. I covered the lower half of the big green gates in chicken wire so the PopPops could not use the gates as…
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The Mad Kings Garden
Yesterday R and I put a panel across the mad kings broken garden gate and let the Charlottes in to the mad kings garden to clean up. Neglected vegetable gardens are gold for pigs! The Mad Kings garden had gotten totally out of control but for some reason him indoors did not want anyone else…
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Sweetcorn, pumpkins, tomatoes, apples and wild plums.
Now is the time to begin gathering pig food from my own farm. As the crops ripen. Nothing is wasted. Waste has no place in a sustainable farm system. The sweetcorn has gone past the sweet stage so now I begin to chop the stalks (complete with corn) and throw the whole lot over the…
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Almost but Not Quite
Yesterday I almost wrote you a blog post to tell you I was not writing a blog post because I was feeling a little under the weather, then as I began to write the blog post to tell you I was not writing a blog post I realized how inside out that all sounded out…
The Kitchen's Garden 