Category: Sustainable farming

• A Fat Farmy Day Drenched in Spray

  Mary’s Cat is being followed and bombed by barn swallows wherever she goes.  (Audrey close your eyes). Because these guys are about ready to take their first flights. They are so patient these little birds. Out-growing their nest and watching the milking from above twice a day.  Did I tell you that their nest is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 17, 2012

  Bees, Life, Organic farming, Sustainable farming

  barn swallows, cats, fat pigs, fattening hogs, insecticide damage, life, pesticide damage

• Curdled cheese from grumpy milk

  Hot chooks and their companion  trying to catch a breeze. Kupa always looks like he is wearing boxers! Here is an old shot of me -just out of interest. I came across this picture again yesterday. It was taken around the time I ended up sat in a basket of wet washing. I was pregnant…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 16, 2012

  Humour, Sustainable farming

  cecilia, eating tomatoes, hot chickens, ice cream, icecream, peacock, peahen

• High tailing it Out of There!

  Daisy was in a bad mood yesterday and all last night and still yelling at me this morning. Bad. Bad. Bad. She stands at her gate and moos with quite the nasty tone.Noisy, bolshy and scary.  She has PMT.  Cows get that too you know. Some cows worse than others. And Our Daisy is worse…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 15, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming

  calf, cow, cow and pig

• Summer rhythm

  We are now finally settling into a summer rhythm. After all the births and the weanings and the schedules. The setting up and taking down and setting up again. the milking, the feeding,  the cooking and the gardening move in and out, giving and taking a little, but basically the days are settled  into a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 14, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, farm days, honey bees, muscles on arms, sheep, summer, summer rhythms

• Little miracles

  Yesterday was one of those comfy days.  After reading your comments I was feeling well and cared for and worked all day in a little blog cuddle bubble. Daisy gave 36 pounds of milk in the morning and 26 in the afternoon. The weather was mild and the weeds pulled easily.  The Tall Teenager found…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 12, 2012

  Life, Preserving, Sustainable farming

  garden plants, squash, watermelon rind pickle