Category: Living the life
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The next generation
I love planting my Fellowship Forest and one of the things Romain and I are doing this week is planting all the trees we have been growing and accumulating over the summer. My favourite Fellowship Forest is right down the back. It is too far for a hose to reach and young trees need lots…
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Tightening the Belt
Farming does not make very much money. It feeds us. But makes very little cash unless I actually sell animals. I am doing the sums. And they do not look good. It is hard and near impossible to create security from a little farm unless you grow your own grain. And feed is expensive now.…
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Have Feathers will Travel
Geraldine the hand raised peahen frequently sits in the bed of the truck and has to be evicted when it is time to drive over to the other barn. I have always wondered what she would do if I just drove off and left her there on the truck- how long she would stay whether she…
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Tips on How to Make Better Bread.
I know that most of you know how to make bread and I am sure you are perfectly happy with how you make your bread, and I am not trying to pretend I know any better. I have been making my own bread for as long as I can remember and that is a very long…
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Lurch
To coincide with the arrival of your Lurch T shirts I asked Lori from the Pig Rescue House in Indiana to send us a few photos of Lurch whose name is now Maggie. Lurch was one of a group of piglets whose mother violently rejected them. She and Winnie the tiniest of the piglets went…
The Kitchen's Garden 