Tag: gardens
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Shine then Rain
It was hot again yesterday, stinking hot, even the chickens declined the outside and stood about in front of their fan for the afternoon. Though they still laid their two dozen eggs right on queue. The temperatures bleached the sky yesterday. The heat reached up into the high 90’s again, not unusual around here but…
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The Kitchens Garden has…
Many gardens .. Some I never even get around to showing you. I will try – but not today. I can’t seem to find my rhythm this summer – not so far anyway. I love the long necks on cows. We have a savage amongst Poppy’s babies. Someone has bitten a chunk out of one…
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100 cabbages
Yesterday we planted out 100 cabbages in the cows garden. (There are 100 more in the glasshouse and 100 more to sow). Today fifty pepper plants of different varieties will follow – the peppers are not for the cows, they are for the Farmers Market market. Roxanne is having trouble adjusting to the high protein pasture…
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oops
I brought a girl baby cow home by mistake. This was not my intention. But. Ah well. I give in. She is not a Bobby so now she will have a name and join the heifers. This calf is the tamest calf I have ever seen, she will literally stand while I stroke her all over.…
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Pig Vandal
Pig games are very simple. Pig brains are very simple. Contrary to popular opinion pigs are not all that intelligent. At least mine aren’t. Not as clever as my dogs and not as clever as a toddler. No toddler I know is happy to lie under a tree all by herself without a sound for…
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