Tag: farming
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Is Change Too Scary?

There is nothing new on this good earth. What we do know for sure is that we can change and change is good. But to change you have to lift your head up and speak (or write). My mother used to say ‘A change is as Good as a Holiday’. But let’s keep our hearts…
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Lowering the Light

The season is slowly lowering her light. Casting her shadows longer and further. Autumnal shades of gold are creeping in around the edges: Today I start editing the text for this week’s podcast on SubStack. Podcast on Sunday. Farm Sounds on Wednesday. So the words here will be fewer today as this week’s story is…
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Green Waters

I got some pond weed and put it in one of the white chickens water bowls to see if they might eat the weed as extra nutrition. Every experiment needs a control. And the chickens preferred the control. The green water was roundly rejected. the clean water was drunk up. The white chickens preferred the…
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The Best Present Ever

I have given up on trying to buy presents for the farm-hand husband. Nothing is ever right. Year after year my presents lie unused on the table, sometimes for months until I put them away myself. Total waste of money and effort. For a few years I gave him cash which he quite liked. Last…


