Tag: farm life
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Tucking in the piggies
And so it got colder. Cows always do the best in the cold. They carry a belly full of hay that behaves like a compost heap a hot compost heap. A healthy cow is warmed from the inside. Unlike my white truck that was encased in ice yesterday morning and I could not even open the door.…
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Tane goes for a walk
A LONG walk. He is convinced, poor deluded fella, that there simply must be a few kernels of corn left for him way out there in the field. But alas the harvesters nowadays leave nothing at all behind. And after the tiller has been through it is all mud in this wet misty weather. Tane…
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Bring out your pumpkins
In America, in the Fall, the people buy pumpkins and put them on their front door steps. Their stoops. An estimated THREE million pumpkins are purchased in the United States during the month leading up to Halloween. Many people carve scary Halloween faces into their pumpkins to keep that old Irish drunk Stingy Jack at bay,…
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Two pairs of eyes
Through my eyes. And now through the eyes of Sonia, Hugo’s mother. French Mama as an American Girl. Country Life! My visitors helped me build a fence to enable the two young gilts Molly and Tahiti to have their outside run. The little pigs were filled with joy at being able to finally run around…
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The Little Stuff
How does one describe an ordinary day filled with the little stuff of life in a way that will both entertain and invigorate. As you know my promises are that every Kitchens Garden blog will be about Yesterday, it will be the unvarnished truth (no shining up) and it will be on my own little farm…
The Kitchen's Garden 