Tag: farming

• Fitting the Puzzle Together

  Yesterday the warmth began to melt a little snow, then the water began to make a lot of mist then a lot of fog, then we lost the horizon.  Gone.  I thought  that today I would have a little round up of what’s happening so we can get the next few months in order. Kind…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 21, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  farming, high wnds, milk cow, milking machine, pigs hormone, weather

• No shortage of Wild Things on the Farmy

  “Oh please don’t go.  We’ll eat you up … We love you so.” And Max said “NO.” from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak one of my favourite children’s books of all time. I never saw the movie, I loved the book that much.  I have read it to children so many times…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 6, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, bobble headed owl, cats and dogs playing, celi, dogs in snow, farming, homesteading, snow, The kitchen’s garden, where the wild things are

• Sheila hates her diet so much she tried stealing the chook food.

  I am not sure if this is Pania again, too far away to see if she has the gap in her crown or not. But What is she doing up there again?  Probably trying to warm me about what I would find in the chook house. Sheila was in the chook house to steal their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, chickens, chooks, farming, hereford pig, homesteading, pea hen on barn, The Daily View, The kitchen’s garden

• Do you really want to live sustainably – self sufficiently?

  Sustainable is not only about food. It is also about lifestyle. Our house is heated by a wood stove. (We only use trees that have fallen in storms or been culled by farmers.)  This means that only one area of the house is heated, the rest is just .. well .. cold. I lay in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cats and cows, cows, farming, pigs, sustainable farming

• How to tell when your ewe is due.

  Yesterday I received this wonderful tip from one of the wonderful Fellowship of the Farmy. r says: January 25, 2014 at 5:03 am (Edit) I am throwing my two cents worth of lambing prediction for your consideration. I go by the udder size to predict the number of weeks or days until lambing. My sheep hate my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 26, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, cow, cows, farming, how to tell if your ewe is ready to lamb, seed catalogues, snow, The kitchen’s garden