Category: Photography
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Free days – when the farm feeds the farm.
There is something deeply satisfying about eating a meal from your own land, in a room you created. Home grown, grass fed steak, with asparagus from down the back and hollandaise using my own eggs and butter, a salad from the garden, cheese from Daisy’s milk followed by rhubarb from the garden and home made…
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There’s a sheep in that sheep! Shearing Day.
Before I even started looking for Mama the sheep I began asking around about a local shearer. Sheep need to be shorn every year, they are mountain animals, they thrive in the winter but to leave all that wool on a sheep in the summers here would be awful. So a local shearer was critical…
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It looks like we lost a hive to the cold
Or at the very least a lot of bees from one hive. The night they were installed it got very cold.. and I suppose they did not get huddled together close enough in time. The other hive seems fine though, noisy and active. In fact late yesterday afternoon there seemed to be activity in both…
The Kitchen's Garden 