Category: homesteading
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The Home Grown September Challenge
The Home Grown September Challenge is going splendidly. Though when you get really down to it there is not enough food out there so I am not sure how Long the challenge will last. It is very dry now and I am going to have to do some serious watering lest my greens give up…
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Beauty Is as Beauty Does.
Sometimes we don’t need many words. Sometimes we need the words of the masters. Because we are surrounded in beauty. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”…
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Hay In, Dinner On, Bees in The Basil
Look what I found while harvesting celery to dry. Bees in the Thai Basil. The celery will be cut and dried and used in soups and stews in the winter. I love it when the harvest table carries a selection. This is how I decide what to have for dinner. My jeans and gloves were…
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And then there were four.
The two piggies I have sold were loaded Into the Stock Trailer without any problems and young Red Hat Matt and his lovely wife came to collect them. I feel much heartened after meeting her because these pigs have been raised by a woman and are used to the constant chat from a woman’s voice…
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Piglets leave home and Day One of the Home Grown September Challenge.
Today, Red Hat Matt, one of the American builders who worked on The Coupe, is coming back to pick up his two piglets. He has bought the gilt (female) and one of the little barrows (castrated male) as company for her. So I am training them to like the Black Mariah that he will borrow…
The Kitchen's Garden 