Tag: farming
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Pig TV
Thanks to Jan from the Fellowship of the Farmy I can now watch Poppy’s activity in her own bedroom, from my own kitchen. This wireless monitor on the kitchen bench connected to a camera in the barn is a game changer. I am so excited about it. Instead of getting up and getting dressed and…
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I Should have KNOWN!
Guess who has begun to show an udder? Go on GUESS! After all this backwardsing and forwardsing and shilly shallying about – it looks like Lady Astor is developing her udder for real. I am fairly sure now. And just before I was about to call the vet out too. With eight days to go…
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Plant, Eat: Pairings
One of the best things a family can do together is eat their meals together. Every night here, my crew and I pick together and cook together (one kitchen mama – many helpers) and eat at the table together. My little rent a family. This kind of grouping works in the garden too. The things…
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The North Garden
Just as I cooked up the last of the frozen tomatoes into a scorched pasta sauce, (I was Kitchen Mama yesterday) Ellie and Alex began to plant the first of the tomatoes for this winters batch of sauce. Any extras we will sell at the farmers market or to the restaurants. The best time to plant…
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100 cabbages
Yesterday we planted out 100 cabbages in the cows garden. (There are 100 more in the glasshouse and 100 more to sow). Today fifty pepper plants of different varieties will follow – the peppers are not for the cows, they are for the Farmers Market market. Roxanne is having trouble adjusting to the high protein pasture…
The Kitchen's Garden 