Tag: farming

• Easterly

  

  The Easterly is my least favourite wind, our prevailing wind is the Sou’ wester.  All the trees bend that way, so the sleeping arrangements in the barn have (like the trees)  evolved as shelters bending to shield themselves from this wind.  When a cold Easterly comes flying in with snow and rain on its back…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 25, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, asparagus beds, balance, Barn, celi, clearing up, farm photography, farming, homesteading, pausing, The kitchen’s garden

• Cats in Hiding

  

  The kittens have heard that next week they are off to have their ‘operations.’  So they are exploring hiding places. I can still see you, you know.  Hide again. I can still see you this time too. Egoli quite likes riding in the car and wonders if he can take his perfectly healthy paw for…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 21, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, barn cats, cats at play, celi, dutch belted cows, farming, hereford pigs, homesteading, pigs, The kitchen’s garden

• Kids Love Kids

  

  Yesterday was a wonderful day on the Kitchens Garden Farm blog. We  all stepped over the divide from the written word to Barn Yard Sound Bites! . That is actually a  big step you know. Ground breaking. We cannot go back. You have HEARD the farm now.  And we loved it. People were playing the barn animals…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2015

  Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, blogging, celi, chickens, chicks, children and goats, farm photography, farming, homesteading, La mancha goats, peacock, The kitchen’s garden

• Spring Sounds

  

  As Gracie and I worked, yesterday morning, hauling out fork-fulls of winter bedding and spreading it across the corridor field,  flock after flock of geese flew overhead, crying out with their distinctive melancholic call. But they were flying North.  No need for melancholy.  They have decided that the warm-up is on its way.  I am…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, celi, farm photography, farming, glasshouse, heat, hereford pigs, pigs, pigs i heat, spring, standing heat, tane, The kitchen’s garden, Tima

• Last Days –

  

  – of the cold. For a week or so anyway. I am feeling desperate for the warm to come.  For just a touch of green. The promise of it makes it seem so much harder to wait. Do you remember that feeling when you were taking an exam and you were on the last two…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 5, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  black walnuts, farming, trees, wild plums