Category: homesteading
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Loading hay and sheep drench for the Duke of Kupa
As we did not have enough hay from the fields this season I had to buy in 150 bales of alfalfa and alfalfa/grass bales. It is from neighbouring fields, so should have the same mineral make up as our own and best of all it arrived while The Tall Teenager was here, on leave, to…
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The Fellowship of The Kitchen’s Garden Farmy Book List
Reading List for 2013. Its a big’n. What a magnificent result. Listed in the order received and copied and pasted over – straight from the Lounge of Comments. In your own words. I love hearing all your voices one after the other. I am going to print mine and pop it in the back of…
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7F (-14C ) is too bloody cold for November
All the cats and dogs crept inside last night. It was a zoo. But they knew it was going to get very cold. Scrapper took over Maramalade and Boo’s bed. For the whole afternoon. Boo took it back later in the night Much to Marmalade’s relief. The Plonkers through the kitchen window. I was outside…
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Are peacocks noisy?
Tui the peahen very kindly clambered up on top of one of the Car Carcasses so I could get a better shot of her for you. (Crouching down is still out of the question for me). I was asked the other day whether the pea fowl are noisy. Not really. In fact from late summer…
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How to make Bacon and Egg Pie
In New Zealand if someone says to you ‘Would you like a pie?” or even a piece of pie, they will be talking about a savoury pie – meat pies, chicken pies or bacon and egg pies and the whole gamut of concoctions in between. A pie has pastry on the bottom and the top…
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