Tag: farming
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The Bee Hive goes Up a Level
Still wrapped in the gentleness of the summer glide we had a productive day yesterday. Summer sauce went into jars. Dried capsicum into jars. Stuff I am not going to eat came Out of jars and into the mouths of my piglets. I have a terrible habit of keeping things in jars just because they…
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Pneumonia takes Piglet.
One of the piglets has died. The little one. He had pneumonia. Pigs show no signs of pneumonia until they are far advanced. No coughing or runny nose. Not even a hot nose actually. Just a creeping lethargy I suppose. Lack of appetite and then eventually no appetite at all. I noticed the night before…
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You write the captions today: A Farmy Fellowship Day.
I have to drive as fast as I can to town and catch the train to the Big City. But first I have to feed or visit all the animals then clean up and put some city clothes on my body. And lipstick, I need to find my lipstick! So my lips do not stick…
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And then the apples began –
Yesterday just as I was getting into the swing of freezing corn on the cob, with the sweetcorn garden relish bubbling away, and the bread rising on the racks above the stove where a tray of sweetcorn kernels were drying, my neighbour popped over with a very welcome bag of tiny cucumbers for pickling (knowing…
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Trashy novels and the Big Fat Chickens Plan
In between the weeding and feeding and lifting and pulling. And cooing and catching and patting. And watering and weeding and pruning and picking and shucking and bagging. I read a trashy novel. The whole thing. It is true I am a fast reader. I am not going to tell you the name of the…
The Kitchen's Garden 