Tag: homesteading
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Free days – when the farm feeds the farm.
There is something deeply satisfying about eating a meal from your own land, in a room you created. Home grown, grass fed steak, with asparagus from down the back and hollandaise using my own eggs and butter, a salad from the garden, cheese from Daisy’s milk followed by rhubarb from the garden and home made…
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green, the good stuff
(laughter). The Rat House paddock is starting to show its green though the ground is still so cold it is taking its time coming up. I have had to let the stock out on the fields before they are quite ready, (I would say the grass is three weeks behind normal growth) this is bad…
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The drought is officially over: miss c said
When the basement floods the drought is over. And in this region today there are lots of flooded basements, and flooded fields and minds flooded with possibilities now that it looks like we may have some water around for the summer. The ducks will be floating in the fields soon … a sight that always…
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Is there a song that goes: Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun?
I think there is. I was humming it all day long yesterday. It was bendy tree windy but we had piles of sun. Sun-Sun Sun-Sun. I could not find my phone for a while – apparently someone had been going through my jacket pockets! Puppys nowadays will only settle for the very latest technology. Everyone…
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No time to loll about, Spring is BUSY!
We have water and sun. Soon maybe we will have pasture rising up from the tiny seeds we scattered a week ago. But not yet though. I think the seeds will wait for decent shower of spring rain and some warmth. Mama is not amused that she cannot get her whole body through the lambs…
The Kitchen's Garden 