Category: Sustainable farming
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Starting at Four in the AM
This morning R and I loaded all the white chickens into crates and all the turkeys into another taller crate. Thanking each one individually. Heaved them up onto the back of the truck and off they went to a small local bird abbatoir. They call them (abbatoirs) lockers here but I am not sure why.…
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Ride along on the Big Tractor
‘Is that you in the tractor’? I texted Farmer Ross. The big John Deere with its planter boxes had been slowly trolling back and forth around the house for a few hours. ‘Three minutes’, he texted back. So after a couple or three short minutes I walked out into the field. The ground flat and…
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It’s freezing!! Again.
Way below freezing again this morning. And the winter fires were declared over and out – all finished – just last week after I climbed up onto the roof and put the anti bird nest hat on top of the chimney. A dangerous exercise if ever there was one but already the starlings were flying…
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Stay true to your mission
A sunset burst forth last night. And reminded me that above those clouds. In spite of those clouds. Behind those clouds: I must stay true to my mission and not be distracted. Well, not much anyway because a good distraction is fun! My mission is to help people live a lifestyle designed to sustain life…
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This Old Barn
No-one knows exactly when this barn was built. Or by whom, but legend has it that before Our John’s Great – Grandfather gutted it to put huge harvesting machines in there, (horrible) it used to house the draft horses that pulled the early farm implements. Plus the house cow and a couple of hogs for…
The Kitchen's Garden 