Category: Living the life
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Is that you?
Do you ever look in the mirror and get a fright? Just a little fright. Just a small startle really. A widening of the eyes. Then you look again at the person in the mirror and think, Oh Yes! There you are. It is you after all. Because in your mind you thought you looked…
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Pig Swap
Yesterday we took Poppy across the way to Manu and retrieved the twins – Molly and Tahiti bringing them back to the Home Farm. But before we did this, as usual, we had to take two steps back before we took the one step forward. So the girls and I repaired all the fences Poppy…
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Roaming Pigs
Poppy the Hereford sow is travelling again – being the escape artist going under the fences. She is due to come back into heat this weekend. Last night I went to check the cows and found Poppy the pig sleeping in the corner of the barn with them. They don’t seem to mind. I don’t mind…
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Heat Exhaustion
We had three of the meat chickens die of heat exhaustion yesterday. They had water, they had shelter but I was off the property for a few hours buying supplies, then we treated ourselves to lunch and did not see them go down. By the time we had got home the wind had turned and…
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The joy of new food
One of the rotations for the workers of the Farmy is the Kitchen Mama day. (Some of the other responsibilities are, Swine Herd, Water Boy, Chicken Handler, Milk Maid, Gardener, etc) With the Kitchen Mama (gender has no influence here, whether woman or man they are Kitchen Mama): for a whole day one worker takes…
The Kitchen's Garden 