Tag: chicken ark

• The Firewood, the Ark, and Sheila Bites the Boar

  Out on The Matriarch’s old farm, where John grew up, is an old mulberry tree planted by his Grandfather.  Last winter this branch fell. This winter this dead branch will keep his grandson (and his good wife)  warm. On the way home we dropped into John’s workshop (at the old farm) so he could show…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 27, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  breeding berkshire hereford cross, breeding pigs, chicken ark, gathering firewood, raising meat chickens

• The Bee Hive goes Up a Level

  Still wrapped in the gentleness of the summer glide we had a productive day yesterday. Summer sauce went into jars. Dried capsicum into jars. Stuff I am not going to eat came Out of jars and into the mouths of my piglets. I have a terrible habit of keeping things in jars just because they…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 18, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading, Life

  Beekeeping, chicken ark, chicken tractor, corn, farming, homesteading, images of full grown corn stalks

• The Rising of the Ark

  Not the 2 x 2 Ark we have had no rain for a while but the 47 Chickens On Grass Ark.  Scrapper is unimpressed. Kupa is just not the bird he used to be.  But my vase of peacock feathers is glorious. Don’t worry they will grow back in time for spring and next year…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 17, 2013

  Farm Animals, homesteading, Life

  care of sheeps hooves, chicken ark, chicken tractor, mama, pigs fighting, raising chickens for meat, The Duke of Kupa