Tag: sustainable farming

• 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…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 14, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  chick and mother, chooks and chicks, pigs, small scale farming, sustainable farming, the farm

• Dirty Windows

  

  This morning I will milk the cow, clean the buckets and the milking parlour, strain and store the house milk. Feed The Bobby and Marcel their milk. Feed the pigs their milk and hay and a little grain (for Poppy).( Who is taking after the ‘Flying Nun’. ) Feed the chickens their milk and their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 29, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, blogging, celi, hereford pigs, homesteading, life, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• Do you really want to live sustainably – self sufficiently?

  Sustainable is not only about food. It is also about lifestyle. Our house is heated by a wood stove. (We only use trees that have fallen in storms or been culled by farmers.)  This means that only one area of the house is heated, the rest is just .. well .. cold. I lay in…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 4, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  cats and cows, cows, farming, pigs, sustainable farming

• Guess who has come home!

  I got up before dawn yesterday morning, after a night fretting about Sheila and decided to bring her home. That is that, I thought. Bad weather was coming again. She was not well. I told the nice young fella that I was worried about the limping and her wound and I might come and take…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 31, 2014

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Ayrshire cow, Barn, Beautiful cows, bringing home Sheila, cows, farm photography, hereford pig, homesteading, sustainable farming, The kitchen’s garden

• Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.

  I know. I know, I say that all the time.  But it is true. Who does not want to do a Jig when you are finally delivered back Home.  Home again, Home again. Jiggedy  – Jig!  Home. Our favourite destination. Though, like  all Immigrants and I am one, as are many of the Fellowship, we…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 7, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  cows, home, kittens and dogs, marmite, pigs who talk, sheep, sustainable farming