Category: Vines and Wine

• Everything but the Earwigs – Making Wine on the Farmy.

  Oh and we tried to take out the spiders too. No spiders were harmed in this post -or photographed – so it is safe to proceed. Yesterday was cold all day. One of those cold days that has a proper serious chill carried by a mean little wind aimed at that one spot of bare…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 8, 2012

  Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  chickens, daily view, grape crushing, grape pressing, photography, pigs, The kitchen’s garden, wine making

• Pigs Play Ball Too you know…

  Yesterday as promised we had a good hard frost.  Our John covered a variety of plants with blankets but I think we are reaching the end of the summer vegetables. Bobby Blanc is in love with one of the Surrogate Milkers. They are getting a handle on the routine very well and soon will take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 7, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  barn images, calf, cows, dodge truck, pigs playing with ball

• You can’t make wine out of that! They say.

  I know it looks bad.                                                                                                    …

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 6, 2012

  Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine, Writing

  cats, Cooking with the old folks, grapes, ice wine

• A Poll, to Vote for the Vista

  This poll is for all of you to vote on the view you would most like to see every day for a year. Remember we wil always have the usual assortment of animal and farmy shots, the food and the stories and the gardens. This shot will not be cleaned up at all. It will…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 30, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  blogging, hereford heifer, one shot a day, photography on the farm, The kitchen’s garden

• Stock that is good enough to drink

  Vegetable stock I mean! Seriously. Why would we cook with a vegetable stock that was not good enough to drink.  Most of the supermarket stocks are just salty and un appetising with a list of chemical ingredients a mile long. They tell me there are some tasty ones, but I have not found any yet.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 13, 2012

  Recipes, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  fennel bulb, fennel seeds, food, hay making, how to make vegetable stock good enough to drink, peahens, vegetable peelings, vegetable stock, vegetarian