Tag: animal photography
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Compost for the Win
After a month I turn the compost pile and add more water. This was my main task yesterday. In these compost piles there is manure, straw bedding (containing urine), matured compost and water. But there is way more straw than manure so when I turn the compost I add more water. To turn it I…
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An overview
Another noisy night but by morning the wind is down and the clouds seem settled. And listening to a storm is better for a body than reading the news – I know that! The farm is green and fertile and growing like mad. HERE IS a short 10 minute walk about the FARM. We walk…
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No Flying, Quacker
I keep checking the weather forecast urgently for rain. Again and again through the day, as though the flurry of my fingers will bring in the clouds. Similar to a certain person opening and closing the refrigerator door again and again as though a pre-cooked feast will miraculously appear in the vegetable drawer. We got…
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Hot in The Plains
The piglets are eating down all their shade. Slowly all their greenery is being ripped back down to nothing. And boy do we need shade this week. My twice a week farm hand has the piglets tame enough now that she was able to get the sunscreen zinc on all their floppy ears. One of…
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A Run Around
I cannot bear being locked up or locking anything up. People, birds or animals. Their enclosures are always big and full of greens and light. But it hurts me to have animals behind doors. A farmer has to. Close gates. I know that. But with the ducklings gone I let the chicks out of the…
The Kitchen's Garden 