Category: Sustainable farming
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TonTon saves the Baby Bobby Blanc
The only real herding that we have seen lately on the farm is Kupa herding the guineas. Watch this sequence. This goes on for ages sometimes, He will walk around and around them keeping them in one place….or moving them across the field and then back. Kupa was disconcerted yesterday because one of the guineas…
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Plain Sailing
The wonderful thing about problems is that you get to solve them. Something goes wrong. You worry on it. You find a pathway to the solution. You fix it or you live with it. But it becomes familiar. The next time it goes wrong, you panic less because you have already found the pathway to…
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Not always in control but momentum gets us to the end
It was so cool yesterday morning that the Tall Teenager and I weeded for more than the usual hour or so. I had watered the day before and the pulling was good so soon not only was I missing breakfast, but I was fast missing lunch. I will catch up on the rest this afternoon…
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The invisible pig party
Do you remember that episode of Roseanne? The sitcom. Or was it Rozanne? Years ago, when she appeared in that kitchen door looking like an absolute fright, hair all everywhere and says to John Goodman. “Do you think I’m purty?” What could he say. Daisy is way too young to have seen that but she…
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How to wash Skunk Stink off your Dog.
TonTon is all clean once again. In fact I would go so far as to say he is the cleanest he has ever been in his short life. So here is how I did it. When I first smelt the fresh skunk smell it was the middle of the night so he was left a…
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