Category: homesteading

• The Omnivore’s Farm

  Things are starting to wind down on the farmy in some ways. And wind up in others. The bulk of the apples and tomatoes and vegetables are in jars and in the cellar. The pears and apples are next in the crusher, not quite yet though. I have a lot of picking to do yet.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 2, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Photography

  apple crumble, celi, gardens, lamb rissoles, pears, raising animals for meat, The kitchen’s garden

• The Last of September – What I learnt from the Challenge.

  For the last meal of the Home Grown September Challenge we had roast lamb slathered in a yogurt, lavender and garlic paste.  Roasted baby pumpkin, roasted beets, roasted shallots tossed in rosemary and hot butter and a huge green salad with an olive oil, cider vinegar and fresh rosemary dressing. All home grown. Today the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 1, 2013

  Farming, Food, homesteading, Photography

  cows and flies, peahen flying, sunrise, the september home grown challenge

• From morning ’til night

  Queenie Wineti’s eye is all better and she has been allowed back out into the field with Daisy, though she is still sticking close to the barn cleaning up the last of her food. You can see the bag of DE that hangs above their feeding car boot. They knock it with their faces and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 30, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  how to take photographs at night with a D90, night photography, pigs living alone, pink eye

• Ladybird Wine

  With a sudden-ness that happens sometimes (often), when one is juggling more than three balls,  (I’ve stopped counting) the wine grapes  went from imminent to ‘Pick me right now’!  These grapes are a Vidal Blanc and this is our third vintage.  I only have 12 vines  and I have decided this year that I need…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 29, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  challenges, grapes, making wine at home, Vidal Blanc, wine making

• Pizza Friday and Tips on Food Photography

  Pizza Friday was excellent. By the skin of its teeth. We almost  stopped at the Pizza Bianca.  ‘Good with beer’ was the response from the peanut gallery.  High praise actually. Now we know that pizza bianca is not really an appetiser for pizza but there you are. I hate rules. Don’t you hate rules? So I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 28, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  beetroot, beets, blog photography, food photography, photography, pizza, pizza bianca