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Sweetcorn, pumpkins, tomatoes, apples and wild plums.
Now is the time to begin gathering pig food from my own farm. As the crops ripen. Nothing is wasted. Waste has no place in a sustainable farm system. The sweetcorn has gone past the sweet stage so now I begin to chop the stalks (complete with corn) and throw the whole lot over the…
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While We Worked
While R and I made the new field run for the little black Guinea Hog piglets … M did the chores. Topping up all the waters and wallows. Feeding the chickens. Giving The Charlottes their lunch. Cleaning their feed bowls. Tending to the turkeys. Doing all the stuff she will do when I am away.…
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Did you see that snake?
It crawled right across the hay feeder above the cows and then into the loft. I think knitting was Friday? Was it Friday? Having Fourth of July holiday on a Thursday upset my brain. Here he is. It may be a she. This is a Fox Snake. And now it is in the loft –…
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I sat Down for a Minute
I cleared out some old dead(ish) bushes from the front of the house and so Tima has shifted camp to under the hydrangea (which is a disaster for the hydrangea) but Mayes for a cute picture! Happy Fourth of July for those who observe. I was chatting to one of my junior farm hands yesterday.…
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Compost for the Win
After a month I turn the compost pile and add more water. This was my main task yesterday. In these compost piles there is manure, straw bedding (containing urine), matured compost and water. But there is way more straw than manure so when I turn the compost I add more water. To turn it I…
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