Category: Living the life
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Caught on film with her head in a Pig Trough!
First we need a lesson in topping. I hate topping. Topping is when you mow the tops off the pasture in the fields. We have more grass than stock this year which is good. And was in the sustainable plan. We are not at full strength as far as stock goes. Not yet. I…
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Introducing Sheila who has spotty ears and .. um, Charlotte.. OOPS
The Swine Herd was sitting on a lawn chair, in the shade, just inside his stables. Like an old gunslinger outside a dusty tavern. He was an old man, tall, handsome and vigorous. He unfolded himself from his chair and strode across to open the door of the car as I came to a halt.…
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The Sleepy Eye of my Mind
When I first dreamed of having peacocks, this was the scene I saw in the sleepy eye of my mind. Kupa up on a fence surveying the farmy. His colours flashing but somehow blending with the surroundings. A tail like a collection of impossibly precious emerald brooches draped so casually across the rustic fence. Kupa…
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Northern Cardinals come home to roost.
Hairy MacLairy has been brought into the barn for a short visit because he keeps scraping his knees. Blood and flies in the field can be a nasty mix. I have been trying to treat his grazes in the field but he hates the wound spray and gallops away when he sees me coming. Then…
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Hot Chicks.. the unsung heroes of Sustainable Farming!
Our John said if I wrote Hot Chicks in the title I would attract the wrong kind of reader. But I don’t know. I don’t think so. And If you like Hot Chicks you might like the farmy too.. everyone eats. But it was so hot yesterday, hovering just under 100 degrees, as the Coke…
The Kitchen's Garden 