Category: homesteading
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Cleopatra is enthroned
She had a rather low key arrival on the passenger seat of a rusty white courier van. Rather weirdly (and this happens to me so often I don’t often think about it anymore) I decided to walk the dogs to the end of the drive, which is something I almost never do and the rust…
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New babies in the loft!
(I have it on Good Authority!) Now I know what all the squawking was about the night before last. I tried to tell you. Says Tui. Two tiny tiny kittens. As long as my thumb. I heard their mewling after the milking yesterday morning and look what I found tucked away behind a bale of…
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Sometimes piggies are not pretty but bees always are …
At last the farmy is looking springy. I even mowed the lawns yesterday. Gardened for hours wearing a heat wrap to protect my back. And look at our new header, it says it all. Charlotte’s shape is slowly changing. I told her to open her eyes for this picture or it would look like she…
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Taking herbs to a new level
When you have a new puppy things get rearranged. It is a bit like having a toddler, so all the herbs at the back door have been moved up a level and popped into big pots or broken pots are stood on end to create shields like little fences… … a visual deterrent that moves…
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green, the good stuff
(laughter). The Rat House paddock is starting to show its green though the ground is still so cold it is taking its time coming up. I have had to let the stock out on the fields before they are quite ready, (I would say the grass is three weeks behind normal growth) this is bad…
The Kitchen's Garden 