Category: Life

• Bees in the Heat

  Kind of a spooky dawn this morning. The haze has created this effect I suppose.  The only green in our landscape is the genetically modified crops but even they are beginning to curl up in the heat of the day.  When bees encounter very high temperatures they use a number of systems to cool the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 7, 2012

  Bees, Life, Sustainable farming

  bees, bees in the heat, hot animals on the farm, hot pea hen, how to cool a bee hive

• Being Water Boy with a Camera

  You may have noticed that most of my images this week have been in the evening.  My main work is done in the morning and in the afternoon.  It is the evening shift that I do the waters.  And it is in the evening that the temperatures drop enough for the animals to move and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 6, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  camera, farm life, heatwave, homesteading, Nikon D70, water for animals

• Walkabout on the hot, hot sleepy farmy

  Ok,  back to business!   I rearranged animals the other day. Mia, Meadow and The Murphy are in The Daisy Paddock with the big gate closed so they have very little shade in the morning. I made them a beer tent. They seem more than happy with it.  Their shade gets bigger as the sun…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 5, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, cows in mud, hot animals, hot fields, sheep, summer

• Some little stories for you because The Kitchens Garden blog is celebrating a year of Blogging

  Today is the Fourth of July, 2012.  The Kitchens Garden and its Farmy has been on the internet, blogging about day to day growing, cooking and farming in a sustainable manner, using organic methods  for ONE YEAR! THE CROWD ROARS!  (If you open your mouth like a lion roaring, then whisper the roar you will…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 4, 2012

  Humour, Life, Stories, Sustainable farming, Writing

  farm news, house intruder, life drawing model, Sausage sizzle, toilet paper thief, writing

• Hairy MacLairy gets some Piggy Kisses

  Hairy MacLairy the ram makes some unusual friendships.  But this must be the strangest of them so far. Sheila were you over there kissing that ram? No Miss C is was not me. It was Charlotte. She’s smelly can I bite her? I only want to kiss you Miss C.  Why don’t you come closer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 3, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  hereford heifer, hereford pig for sale, sheep and pigs, writing a book