Category: Sustainable farming

• Tea Cups and Jars

  Did I tell you that John has predicted that spring is coming early? Just a thought.  So now we have these growing in the South Window. I know, they will get leggy. However you always plant tomatoes right up to their leaves as they are one of the few plants that will grow roots from…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 18, 2012

  Sustainable farming, Vegetable Gardens

  nut and seed crackers, summer dressing, tomato seedlings

• Let’s go Walkabout on the Farmy. Ignore those men with guns!

  So now for something completely different. We will go back to the post I was collating when we were so RUDELY interrupted by men with guns. Yesterday in the morning there was a snow man with a TopKnot sleeping on the roof of the barn! This is one of Houdini’s chickens, growing up. The snow is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 16, 2012

  Photography, Sustainable farming

• Sinister is the wrong word maybe flat out scary

  Is this what I think it is? I took this photo tonight.  And I swear I have never seen this hole in the glass before! Is this from a gun? A rifle?. Hmm. It is pheasant shooting season. TonTon and I had words with hunters coming too close to my house today in  their camouflage gear…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 16, 2012

  Sustainable farming, Writing

  dog, guns, gunshot window, men with guns, pheasants shooting, sunset

• Hiding Out from the Blizzard in The Barn

  It is 14F (–10C) this morning. Snow on the ground. Yesterday we were locked inside  with a blizzard hurling itself around outside. It was about 18F all day.  Snow flew in swirls through the fields past the buildings and straight out across the plains.  It seemed very certain of its path that  snow.  We were…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 13, 2012

  Farming, Sustainable farming

  ayrshire heifer, Barn, cows, hereford calf, interiors, midwest, snow

• The Original Mumma Munch Recipe

  What do you mean you can’t read that! This is the recipe my mother wrote into my recipe book years ago, before she died.  Well, obviously Before she died, I mean, if she had written it After  she had died this would be a very different story!! Anyway, this was before cell phones and computers…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 11, 2012

  Recipes, Sustainable farming

  healthy, Home Made granola bars, Muesli Bars, Mumma Munch