Category: Sustainable farming

• In my kitchen and Sheila the Babe comes today

  It is dawn of  June the 1st here. Celia over at Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has a little tradition of greeting the new month with a look at some of the new bits and pieces in her kitchen.  And she very kindly invites us to do the same. As we are still waiting for Daisy…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 1, 2012

  Farm Animals, Sustainable farming

  cat playing with pig, cow, golden syrup, in my kitchen, lemon squeezer, recycling

• The Sleepy Eye of my Mind

  When I first dreamed of having peacocks, this was the scene I saw in the sleepy eye of my mind. Kupa up on a fence surveying the farmy.  His colours  flashing but somehow blending with the surroundings. A tail like a collection of impossibly precious emerald brooches draped so casually across  the rustic fence.  Kupa…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 31, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  guinea fowl image, lamb with cat, lamb with guineas, old people, peacocks image, responsibility, retirement homes

• Northern Cardinals come home to roost.

  Hairy MacLairy has been brought into the barn for a short visit because he keeps scraping his knees. Blood and flies in the field can be a nasty mix.  I have been trying to treat his grazes in the field but he hates the wound spray and gallops away when he sees me coming.  Then…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 30, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  border collie, guinea fowl, mock orange, Northern Cardinal

• Hot Chicks.. the unsung heroes of Sustainable Farming!

  Our John said if I wrote Hot Chicks in the title I would attract the wrong kind of reader. But I don’t know.  I don’t think so.  And If you like Hot Chicks you might like the farmy too.. everyone eats. But it was so hot yesterday, hovering just under 100 degrees, as the Coke…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 28, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  chickens in the heat, hot chicks, sustainable farming

• The Perfect Pig Bath and dark chocolatey Brownies

  You will remember that the Pigs had their paddling pool confiscated because they mistook it for a toilet.  I have experimented with all kind containers that I can fill with water for them to wallow in. Usually they just empty the water out and play on the concrete. Shoving the offending receptacle around with their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 27, 2012

  Baking, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  brownies, hogs, hot pigs, pigs, sheep, water