Tag: cows
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Kunekune Fields
Conor’s last task as the resident guest worker was to help me put up an electric fence around the grapevines and the pine trees to create quite a big field for the kunekune. This is good for two reasons, Tima and Tane get a summer field with lots of trees and I don’t have to…
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MagdalenAs (cupcakes)
When the rain finally gets too heavy to work outside the farmer comes inside to make some Magdalenas de Yogur from my new Basque cook book. I have never made these before and it is such a simple recipe I wanted to share it with you. Little yoghurt cakes. in the absence of Hackberries…
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Her tail …
Alex wears her tail like a train. It is so long but how I wish she would stand still so I could get a brush through it. She has the best tail, that wee Dexter cow but she prefers dreadlock look. My cow is a hippie. Carlos the Tiny having a scratch. We found some…
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Once a week
Once a week we are looking at this patch of ground – top sown with my special pasture cocktail. Watching the grass grow. I am excited. The pasture not so much. In case you cannot see the whole of the picture in your header, and after all who can see the whole picture in many…
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I don’t know the title today
The thing with disappointment is that you just have to swallow and deal with it. I think the actual swallow is pretty important to this process. Like a pause. A stand on the one foot. The stillness. The re-evaluation- once again- after all this time, seeing for sure that your plans were for naught. Poppy…
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