Category: Sustainable farming

• Walkabout on the hot, hot sleepy farmy

  Ok,  back to business!   I rearranged animals the other day. Mia, Meadow and The Murphy are in The Daisy Paddock with the big gate closed so they have very little shade in the morning. I made them a beer tent. They seem more than happy with it.  Their shade gets bigger as the sun…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 5, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, cows in mud, hot animals, hot fields, sheep, summer

• Some little stories for you because The Kitchens Garden blog is celebrating a year of Blogging

  Today is the Fourth of July, 2012.  The Kitchens Garden and its Farmy has been on the internet, blogging about day to day growing, cooking and farming in a sustainable manner, using organic methods  for ONE YEAR! THE CROWD ROARS!  (If you open your mouth like a lion roaring, then whisper the roar you will…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Stories, Sustainable farming, Writing

  farm news, house intruder, life drawing model, Sausage sizzle, toilet paper thief, writing

• Hairy MacLairy gets some Piggy Kisses

  Hairy MacLairy the ram makes some unusual friendships.  But this must be the strangest of them so far. Sheila were you over there kissing that ram? No Miss C is was not me. It was Charlotte. She’s smelly can I bite her? I only want to kiss you Miss C.  Why don’t you come closer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 3, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  hereford heifer, hereford pig for sale, sheep and pigs, writing a book

• Mama hates me today and the Pink Pickled Onion recipe.

  Mama hates me today. I have begun the process of weaning her lambs from her. She is getting worn down, her udder is looking banged up with dry patches  and these lambs at almost three months old are big and  pushy. Watching those two fly at her at full gallop, charging straight at her udder…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 2, 2012

  Life, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  ewe, pickled onion recipe, sheeps udder, weaning lambs

• Water, water everywhere, give me a drop to drink

  Yesterday as I walked about in the heat with my hose making sure animals had water to stand in and cold water in their troughs I began to wonder about how much water I was  using. How much water is needed to run a sustainable, organic farmy. So I did a little research. Daisy (milking…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 29, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  bees, chickens, conserving water, how much water does a cow drink, how much water does it need to, pigs, sheep, water