Tag: sustainable living

• An escape waiting to happen.

  Do you see the little left hoof of the middle piglet? Yes, he is thinking about climbing through. I better fatten him up quick so he cannot fit. They are getting harder to take photos of, as the moment they see me they race over to see what I have got. Every morning I cut…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 22, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography

  forsythia for animals, life on a farm, permaculture on the farm, piglets, prunings for sheep and cows, sustainable living

• Now you see me, now you don’t

  As the temperature rose yesterday the earth exhaled a blanket of  cloudy breath dripping with whispers.  I took you for a wee walk down my road.  Now, turn your head from this moonscape, look out to the West, can you see the farmy? Take twenty more steps…  Look again and we see nothing but mist.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 29, 2013

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  farning, fog, micro farming, sustainable living

• A tiny bit of spring is not always pretty

  You will remember that the day before yesterday we opened the Big Barn Doors so that our hawk could find his way out. Which he did.  I have left them open. Yesterday was fine and clear and gentle with just a touch of spring was in the air.   The sun streamed into the barn,…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 20, 2012

  Photography, The Farmy

  Barn, border collie, cats, chives, cows, garlic, sustainable living, wild onions

• Monday Morning Farm

  This is what I saw when I began the chores this morning. A cat sleeping in my shopping bags. You know the bags that you pause on the verandah. The plan being  to  stow them back in the car later. Then they never make it to the car, and you end up at the supermarket…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 17, 2011

  Celi Diet, Farm Animals, Farming, Life, Organic farming, Sustainable farming, Writing

  abbatoir, farming, kitten, lambs, organic methods, sustainable farming, sustainable living, wethers

• Don’t yell at me about being on a Diet & Parmesan Crackers

  I know dieting is a bad word. I know that we say to ourselves- I should be able to eat what I like. I am allowed to enjoy myself. Being overweight is not a bad thing. But you have to qualify what is overweight. You see I believe in being my natural weight. And my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 10, 2011

  Humour, Life, Low-Carb, Recipes, Vegetarian

  diet, low carb recipes, parmesan crackers, sustainable living, The Celi Diet