Category: Sustainable farming
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‘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…
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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…
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When flawed is just perfect..
And imperfect is exactly right. Yesterday was one of those delicious days when nothing much happened. I went about my work. Not too energetically. Alone on the farm again. The quiet is getting quieter. The road is still blocked by construction from both directions, it has been like this all summer but they seem to…
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Daisy the Virgin Cow
Yesterday Daisy met with the Vet. She was wild eyed and leery. Daisy that is .. The Vet was calm and brave. The Vet has known Daisy since she was a new born so everything soon settled down. Maximus is the name of the bull. His semen arrived frozen, and held suspended in a tank in…
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