Tag: farming

• Marauding pigs break into the chook-run

  Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 14, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  carhart, farming, homesteading, life, photography, pigs, sheep, winter

• The Mucky Murk or is it The Murky Muck

  Yesterday was a study in getting stuck in the mud. I squelched my way through fields with my arms out like wings trying to keep my balance. The ground underneath is still frozen so in some areas the melting soil is like a slurry on top of ice, in others it is deep cold muck…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 11, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Photography

  animal photography, border collie, cows, farming, homesteading, mud, mud on the farm, sheep

• Lambs go out and play in the snow

  I began the big clean in the barn yesterday. Working our way through each pen … … forking out all the old hay out to the compost piles.. … scraping and cleaning the concrete floors … c .. … …everything get sprinkled with diatomaceous earth to kill any bugs, then lime to dry it out…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 10, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography

  cleaning the barn, farming, old barns, quad lambs, Suffolk sheep and quads

• The Whisper of Spring’s Wing.

  Yesterday I was working in the barn for a while then came back out into the air and there it was. Warmth. There was no sun, and I was surrounded in snow, yet somehow there was a warm cast to the air. Of course it made no sense to the senses but it was there.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 8, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  farming, hope, peacocks, rooflines, sheila the hereford pig, sowing seeds, spring, sustainable farming

• A little sun goes a long way

  The early morning sun yesterday was a sight for sore eyes. And tired eyes. Immediately we were uplifted. I opened all the doors in the barn and light flowed straight past me and into the gloom.  Everyone crowded for the tiny warm spaces.  Some are better at sharing than others. The Duke of Kupa is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 4, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Vines and Wine

  farming, lambs, micro farming, peacock, peacock plumage, sunrise on a cow