Tag: farming
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Talia: the little calf
Special Edition. Here are a few photographs of Talia for you as promised. And yes with all the changes and the Last Dinner for Kevin and Victoria things were pretty stretched today. So I am a little later than I had anticipated. Teensy Talia is inquisitive, hungry and already making herself at home. Aunty is…
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A scrap of paper
I had a fantastic line to write to you today. The words came to me while I was eating dinner cooked by one of the volunteers surrounded by chattering and laughing young people. It was a sublime collection of words that encapsulated my day. So I tore off a little strip of paper towel from…
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Mirror, Mirror
On the Wall. Who is the peahen of them all? Vanity thy name is Geraldine. Now that the peahens are out they all spend a considerable amount of time in the garage looking at themselves in the mirror and they do preen too! Not everyone is impressed. Aunty Anna and Naomi across the way. Two…
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Hit in the head by a summer day.
Summer has finally hit. We were in the high 90’s (mid 30’s C) and even though this was officially a day off for my crew they were out there filling wallows and water troughs and watering new plants. Making sure all the animals did not come under stress from the heat. Manu had no problem…
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Almost to the brim
Now I have four volunteers and the farm is really humming. I have to be right on task though as they were at full throttle yesterday and working so fast, striking things off the list one after the other – I was having trouble keeping up. Today we are taking down some old fences and collecting all the…
The Kitchen's Garden 