Category: Sustainable farming
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100 cabbages
Yesterday we planted out 100 cabbages in the cows garden. (There are 100 more in the glasshouse and 100 more to sow). Today fifty pepper plants of different varieties will follow – the peppers are not for the cows, they are for the Farmers Market market. Roxanne is having trouble adjusting to the high protein pasture…
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Nosy Cow
As I wrote Nosy Cow I wondered how often I had written Nosy Cow as a header. But every where I turned yesterday with a fork full of cow manure, as I cleaned and remade the cows beds, there was Lady Astor, watching, standing right in the way, not moving an inch, being suspiciously sweet…
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Cojones
(Is that a bad word? But it is the word I need). Slowly I settled back into the farm yesterday. I took a mental health day and decided not to talk to any humans. It was lovely. The sun was out and so was I. Look at our sleeping kune kune. The most entertaining pigs.…
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Two day old Kittens
Though you have to squint your eyes and peer into the screen to see them. My Dad always said where there is light there is a photograph. He forgot to mention – unless the photograph will not SIT STILL. Four are a light salmon gold. Two are as marmalade coloured as Marmalade. I think. I have…
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Back to The farm.
Home again. Home again. Jiggedy Jig. Back to the farmy we go. And autumn has come. I came home to a pigs welcome. And a pigs welcome is a such a joy. When I first walked out into the field yesterday morning, Sheila was lying down sleeping in the sun. She saw me, leapt up…
The Kitchen's Garden 