Category: Sustainable farming

• Wet Farmy with a Flying Peahen…

  See what happens when we take the day off. And no, I did not get a sleep in, instead there was a murder in the bedroom when Our John forgot that I was having a sleep in and WOKE ME UP!@!! at 5am.  I told him that hundreds and hundreds of people in more than…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 2, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cow, flying peahen, ram, sheep

• Working alone on the farmy

  Working alone on a farm has its challenges and its dangers.  Though you would not know that there are any hidden dangers from the little collection of images we see today.  And the little farm is managed in a low tech sustainable manner so my use of machinery is kept to a minimum. My tractor…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 29, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  barns, cell phone, farm photography, ladders, life, safety on the farm

• The precious light of dawn

  It appears that against my will I am being carefully and inexorably towed out by the tide of an ebbing summer, back into the dark mornings. The brightness of summer is leaving me.  Too soon. Too soon. The sunrise is only at the strength of a whisper as I carry my buckets of warm water…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 28, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  dawn barn image, Dreams, rabbit stew

• ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

  … to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill.  I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly.  It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its  metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’   But that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cheese, date loaf, failure, farm animals, life, rain, Small house

• A day in the life of the Piggie Shush Sisters

  I thought I would show you what the Shush Sisters get up to during the day. Charlotte and Sheila. My naughty Hereford piggies. The Shush Sisters have a night time residence in the barn. It has big inside sleeping quarters, that can be closed right up for the winter, and an outside concrete courtyard. In…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 24, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  A day in the life of a pig, feeding pigs, hereford pigs, pigs and water, pigs in mud