Tag: small scale farming
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Good morning. I am going to be jogging around the chores this morning now that Kim our Fellowship Friend and trailblazer Farm Stay Participant has climbed reluctantly back onto a plane and flown home. On Saturday The Tall Teenager comes home on leave. I have plans for a Big Clean Up. Maybe I will even…
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We’re back!

The last few days have been divine. Tons of sun. Not too hot. And very little wind. Just wonderful. Gorgeous weather and no need to leave the property at all. So we gardened and farmed, We picked and ate, Our John worked on his pool, The Matriarch worked in the flower beds and generally we had…
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Flux

Every time another change happens on the farmy I need to pause, reset, and adjust so that I can sensibly create another workable routine. I have a milk cow, a beef cow, dairy calf, beef calves, sheep, pigs, chickens, big ones and little ones and baby chicks, peacocks, peahens, the ducklings, dogs, bees, cats and Tima, (Tima the Naughty is…
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All is Forgiven

Yesterday morning I was in a right grump. It was cold and raining and COLD and RAINING. I know it is bad to be in a grump about it being cold and raining with so many of you in California in a terrible drought but I was grumpy. Logic plays no part in grumpiness. …
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A miniature surprise

I have been ‘doing the paparazzi’ with this little peeper for a week now. Finally I have captured an image of him for you. My oldest barn chicken hatched this wee fella in the loft, he fell through a hole in the floor, she found him again and he is still going strong. I think…

