Category: Vines and Wine

• The scents of spring help soften the hard decisions.

  Thing One on the walk, ruffed by the wind. Tulips. Mia and two Murphys.  It is going to be a short year for pasture, we are still recovering from two dry years. And to be truly sustainable I can only run a very small flock of sheep. After that the land suffers. So the lambs…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 7, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  apple blossom, bee in blossom, cherry blossom, dealing with difficult decisions, peach blossom, roofing, tiny house

• The scents of spring help soften the hard decisions.

  Thing One on the walk, ruffed by the wind. Tulips. Mia and two Murphys.  It is going to be a short year for pasture, we are still recovering from two dry years. And to be truly sustainable I can only run a very small flock of sheep. After that the land suffers. So the lambs…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 7, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  apple blossom, bee in blossom, cherry blossom, dealing with difficult decisions, peach blossom, roofing, tiny house

• Weeping Mulberries for the Forest of the Fellowship

  As you know I call you the Fellowship of the Farmy  because you have become a strong flavourful scent in the air floating up across the grassy fields.  I say scent because I smell things differently from other people, I can see what I smell as though it is a bar code, (believe me this…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 4, 2013

  Farming, Life, Vines and Wine

  kittens, weeping mulberry

• Taking herbs to a new level

  When you have a new puppy things get rearranged. It is a bit like having a toddler, so all the herbs at the back door have been moved up a level and  popped into big pots or broken pots are stood on end to create  shields like little fences… … a visual deterrent that moves…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 28, 2013

  Farming, Gardening, homesteading, Vines and Wine

  dogs and gardens, farming, gardening, planting trees, underground water, water

• Can pigs get morning sickness?

  Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering.  Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  barn cat, old barn, pigs, pregnant pig, snow, snow pictures