Category: Sustainable farming
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I didn’t have a pair of red shoes! The award post.
But now I have a pair of virtual red shoes, actually only one red shoe. I am waiting for the other shoe to drop… something like that. What does that Mean! Where did that expression come from? Don’t you ever wonder about some of these sayings? What other shoe? And where is it dropping from?…
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Lemon Honey Cheesecake with a Twist of Mint and a milking machine.
Merry Christmas, John said as he carried two huge boxes through the kitchen door. I checked the calender, yes, still January. The milking machine had arrived. Much excitement. If Daisy the cow could have seen us staring at the bewildering collection of bits and pieces with knobs and switches, all gleaming and solid looking, she…
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He got Cold Feet on The Farmy.
Yesterday we had glorious sunshine and not a breath of wind. This morning sitting in my high up studio, the sky still black all I can hear is wind. One of the challenges I have set myself, for these pages, was that all the images, every day, were to be from the farmy, our gardens…
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Sweet cold farmy day.. we love the farmy days.
Snow. Light Powdery snow. We had another snowy day yesterday. But it is still too dark outside for me to see what happened in the night. We have no street lights in the country so there is no way of knowing without going out. Some farms have enormous lights that light the whole yard…
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Spring Garden Planning and making Paper Pots for the Seedlings.
I HATE PLASTIC! Oh you knew that. I did not need to SHOUT then. But I hate plastic! So I refuse to buy plastic pots for the hundreds of seedlings we grow each year. It kind of defeats the purpose you know. So I make paper pots. They hold together remarkably well when packed in…
The Kitchen's Garden 