Category: Sustainable farming
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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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Adopted chooks
The blue skies have returned and the weather man says we are going back into a dry cycle. We are still very lucky though. Our dry spell is nothing like the droughts they are having down South. All weather is relative really. An Australian drought would devastate this area. And a mid west drought would…
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Under the cherry tree
When I have family working with me. I get to lie under the cherry tree. And watch all the things going on around me. And wonder why I did not take up Poetry. Not exactly Chekhov. But he wasn’t a poet either. The objective of Cai’s training is to locate people who have been buried…
