Category: Sustainable farming
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Haymaking makes my Skinny Girlie Arms Ache.
A good ache though. Yesterday I made an electric fence run out the North side of the Barn for our slinky swine. This is primarily so that the pigs can root in the dirt. They get a lot of their essential minerals from the soil. Daisy and I went through our twice daily routine…
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Learning Lessons from The Farm
We had a recovery day yesterday. The little chicks are all doing well. The badly hurt one may never walk properly again though. However she is getting herself to her food and drink and stays close to her company through the cage walls. Chooks are pretty tough. There was the gentle raking of the rained-on…
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Growing Good Grass in Spring Storms
Yesterday morning, after doing the chores and various jobs around the farmy, Big Dog, TonTon, Mary’s Cat and I went for our usual early morning walk through the long grass down by the creek which is now a ditch, and along the fences, checking the boundaries, and out into the new fields. To grow…
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Don’t you know it is rude to Stare!
Yesterday the bees were out. The two remaining hives seem to be doing very well. When my help is home on the weekend we will look inside their hives and do a health check. Kupa was caught going about his ablutions. Vigorously. He has reminded me that I promised to go to the Bantam Swap…
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The Lambs find TonTon and Sad Bee News.
TonTon is afraid. He is very afraid. There is a Minty looking at his blue ball. And he is hoping he will not be commanded to share. Sharing toys is nice Ton. The terror of having to share! Maybe with all three of the lambies! Poor Ton, being picked on by those iddy biddy…
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