Category: Sustainable farming
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Putting your Best Foot forward.
Our busy little corner of the world once again fell into that peaceful pool of ambient light, that adagio of gloaming. Yesterdays work floated along like a good wee farmy. I love it when we all search for a word. Words are such powerful scribbles. Such magnificent codes to decipher. You guys brought some perfect…
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Slumber party piggies
When I went to check the piggies in the morning yesterday they were nowhere to be found. Then I heard a grunt and a head popped up from below the straw. I have been saving old hay and straw for months now for their bedding and it had ended up ridiculously deep, about four foot…
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Kupa finds his voice
Yesterday morning I did half the chores then drove in the cooking oil car to the village, picked up my Mother-in-Law (The Matriarch) and drove her to a bigger town to catch the bus to Chicago for the weekend at 7.30am. Before I left I fed everyone who needed feeding and at the very last…
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Frost is only called Jack in the autumn
In the autumn, frost is fun, it is a herald and a wee bit exciting. In the Spring the frost can bring frozen tears to your eyes. When I was writing to you yesterday morning I saw this through the window.And thought oh how pretty, look at the sun rising through those translucent leaves. But…
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Walkabout a sleepy farmy
A sleepy Sunday on the farmy for everyone but the farmers! How come they all get to doze while we rush about with wheelbarrows and fence posts. Life is good for little Queenie. At least, with Daisy, we have a date as to when she is due to calve, or at least a week. In…
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