Category: Sustainable farming

• The cave

  Yesterday was cooler so I tried to spend some time inside doing interesting inside jobs as opposed to the drudgery inside jobs that I do At Speed.  So I packaged up more postcards to be sent.  Then I worked in my new Cave.  John calls it the Cellar. The local word for this room is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 27, 2012

  Sustainable farming

  basement, cellar, fruitroom, magnolia, postcards, self sufficiency, storage space

• Winter left without saying goodbye.. no manners

  I am back.  And so relieved. Not having you to talk to at the beginning of each day was just plain lonely. I would see a picture and have no-one to share it with.  The animals would do something silly but no-one to tell. I am so sorry that took so long. But quite delightfully,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 16, 2012

  Farming, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming

  flower garden, hay paddock, sowing grass seed, St Joseph

• Hairy MacLairy gets a Pedicure

  Yesterday was fine and warm with only slightly windy winds.  It was a calm steady productive afternoon, I was passing  through the Corridor Paddock where Daisy and Hairy MacLairy were dosing, I took a shot of Hairy and Queenie then I noticing Hairy’s hoof stuck out like as he relaxed, so putting the camera on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2012

  Farm Animals, Farming, Sustainable farming

  Barn, challenger car, Dorset sheep. Ayrshire cow, hereford calf, hoof trimming

• Walky about the Farmy

  The barn is quiet once more.  The wind is down. Everyone was resting yesterday including Mia, she did not have a good morning,  so once again I let them out into the forbidden field where it is clean.  We are supposed to be letting the grass grow!  Everyone else has to wait on the concrete…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 9, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  Carhart bib overalls, cats, chickens, farmy, mama, Mia, The kitchen’s garden

• Straight to the good news

  Mia is doing OK, though she lost her lambs.  After I wrote to you yesterday she gave birth to two stillborn tiny prem lambs. The crying from that wee sheep was harrowing.  I shifted her and Mama out of the middle pen after the worst of the messy business was over and  put them in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 7, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  Barn, sheep, still born lambs, wind