Tag: farming

• We usually have break outs…

  …not break INS. I know this is hard to see but at the end of the pig sty is .. well WAS a fence..  The Shush sisters have been loitering in their summer fields, and hanging out in the sun-room on the South side of the barn, which meant that I had moved the Bobby…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 14, 2012

  Farming, Life

  cow breaking fences, cows, farming, fencing, hay, kittens in bricks, pigs

• Walkabout on the Farmy.

  Morning darlings. Our walkabout yesterday started on the North side. My favourite view of the barn. After the milking Daisy and Queenie walk out to their new field.  I let ut the Shush Sisters  (this is Charlotte)  and we went and visited Hairy MacLairy on the left and Mama on the right.  You can see…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 27, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  farm animals, farming, must rush, slept in

• Pigs love Milk

  Beautiful Daughter, who you will remember is in Melbourne, still reads the Farmy pages every day.  She was on the phone yesterday. Write more stories, she says.  I said, it is summer here I don’t start the real writing until December 26.  I cannot think of a single story in the summer. I am too…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 14, 2012

  Humour, Life, Sustainable farming, Writing

  farming, humour, life, meatloaf, missing your children, peahen, pigs

• Who Left the Gate Open?

  Now,  what is wrong with this picture? Exactly. Hairy MaClairy in with Mama.  Pretending he is not really there! Way too early for that carry on Hairy! The onions have statted lifting themselves so they are being hung out to dry.  Onions have done very well this year. So have my Easter Chickens. They still…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 18, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  cow in sunset, farming, global warming, pollution, sheep, sore mouth in sheep, spraying crops, taking control

• Hawks Love Young Chicks

  When I returned from buying feed yesterday morning, the guineas were  shrieking up a storm. Imagine a highly strung young matron throwing her apron over her face and running screaming in circles, then you have a reasonable description of the guineas when they see a hawk. The guineas do not yell at cars or stray…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 16, 2012

  Life, Organic farming

  chicks, death, farming, haymaking, marmite, tractor tilling field