Category: Farming
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How to make organic fertiliser from worm casings.
In the basement I have two worm farms. One is a conventional vertical worm farm that has trays that you layer upwards. I feed the worms a mixture of brown feed and green feed. The brown includes egg cartons, cardboard, coffee grounds, tea leaves, shredded paper, egg shells, dead leaves and in this case the…
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Kupa finds his voice
Yesterday morning I did half the chores then drove in the cooking oil car to the village, picked up my Mother-in-Law (The Matriarch) and drove her to a bigger town to catch the bus to Chicago for the weekend at 7.30am. Before I left I fed everyone who needed feeding and at the very last…
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Frost is only called Jack in the autumn
In the autumn, frost is fun, it is a herald and a wee bit exciting. In the Spring the frost can bring frozen tears to your eyes. When I was writing to you yesterday morning I saw this through the window.And thought oh how pretty, look at the sun rising through those translucent leaves. But…
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I wagged yesterday
No not my tail. I wagged work. I played hookey. I was a truant. Look at that calm shot. The wind was so terrible I had to rest the camera on a fence post to keep it still but you cannot see that wind! It was so windy and so cold that I regressed. I…
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Cows like to party too.
The visitors decided to hang out in the barn yard. Delighted by the nosy cows. Queenie mooched about chatting with the girls. And the boys. It was a lovely laid back evening with a glass of wine in the newly cleaned yards. Everyone could join in. Unless you are a pregnant sheep. Then No…
The Kitchen's Garden 