Tag: growing food

• IN LIKE FLYNN

  

  We backed the stock trailer up to the pig gate and Molly almost climbed right over the gate in her excitement to get in. We drove her to the West Barn where she leapt off the trailer and trotted with great enthusiasm down the corridor and into her side pen where her dinner waited. Manu…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2018

  Farm Animals, farmphotography, Photography, Sustainable farming

  countrylife, farming, farmlife, growing food, hereford hogs, hogs, pigs, shifting pigs, sustainable

• A dream

  

  Do you remember I told you about that young man, (who actually found me on the woofer site – got  in touch then disovered that I was only 8 miles from the acre plot that he intends to turn into a gently organically, sustainably grown vegetable garden). Did I tell you about him? He has…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 22, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  dreams working hard for your dreams, good food, growing food, organis vegetables, sustainable farming

• Every day dawns anew, washed, shiny and ready for living in.

  Every day there is a new dawn. Every day. Everyone gets one. It is true. No matter what troubles we are dealing with,  we all get another chance tomorrow. Yesterday the farmy woke to a little  snow and more of the deep chill.  Not as deep as some and certainly not as much snow and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 10, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  ewe miscarrying lambs, farming, growing food, life

• Water in the garden and an important discussion.

  I have always been fascinated by water in the garden. And butterflies, bees and birds, not to mention toads, frogs, snakes and our collection of  little garden inhabitants share my fascination.  Water adds a reflective shimmer to the ruffled, vibrant, undulating collection of colours and textures in the flower garden. My little bowls and plates…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 20, 2012

  Bees, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming

  bee, flowers, growing food, poppy, water, water containers

• Celi Diet: growing good food in subzero temperatures

  Yes, yes I know what you are about to say.  Just last week I would not even admit that autumn/fall was on its way, let alone begin to talk about winter.  Now I am heralding  the plummet, discussing sub zero temperatures, when only yesterday I was talking about a gypsy summer. What is she like.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 14, 2011

  Celi Diet, Organic farming

  bean sprouts, growing food, mung beans, sprouting seeds