Category: Sustainable farming

• You can’t make wine out of that! They say.

  I know it looks bad.                                                                                                    …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 6, 2012

  Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  cats, Cooking with the old folks, grapes, ice wine

• Dutch Apple Pie

  I am not a food blog but I love food. The old Codger loves food too especially dessert pies. So every week he looks through his old recipe books, and he has a fair few of them, and chooses a pie.  This Dutch Apple pie is made just like an apple pie except you top…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  chickens, Dutch Apple Pie, Pigs in the chook house, The Daily View, the hen house, The kitchen’s garden, The temperature

• The great escape (didn’t we do this already?)

  Yesterday started out like any other but turned out to be a bit of a bother.                      Daisy is almost definitely not pregnant. Which means I will have to milk her through the winter (sigh) and then breed her again in May/June next year.  I do not…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 4, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  drying beans, lost pig, sheep

• Butt-heads Butt Heads

  This morning shot is for yummy chunklet who loves to see the sky and does not see much of it, marooned up there in the big city! The sun was still so low it was obscured by the Rat House.  And a rose by any other name.. is a rose whose name I cannot remember but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  head butts, water barrels, white rose, writers desk, writing competition

• It’s OK I won’t count the days!

  The Duke of Kupa is still beautiful… … even though his tail is all but gone for the winter. The girls are all hanging out together in the Potato Paddock. A little flock. And look who has been let out of the hospital wing and rejoined the nursery… Bobby Blanc is all better. Much to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire calf, border collie, daily shot, Duke of Kupa, little flock of sheep, peacock, temperature in Illinois, The kitchen’s garden