Tag: The kitchen’s garden

• Kids Love Kids

  

  Yesterday was a wonderful day on the Kitchens Garden Farm blog. We  all stepped over the divide from the written word to Barn Yard Sound Bites! . That is actually a  big step you know. Ground breaking. We cannot go back. You have HEARD the farm now.  And we loved it. People were playing the barn animals…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 18, 2015

  Vines and Wine

  animal photography, Barn, blogging, celi, chickens, chicks, children and goats, farm photography, farming, homesteading, La mancha goats, peacock, The kitchen’s garden

• Later

  

  We got the call! I am running back outside to finish the chores then Our John and I  are going drive away and pick up the baby goats. The Kids Ma, The La Manchas, I am off to pick up the kids. YAY.  When I collected  their milk replacement powder yesterday I  had my hair done…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 14, 2015

  Farming, Humour, Life, Photography

  celi, Later on, laughing pig, miss c, picking up goats, pictures, The kitchen’s garden

• Spring Sounds

  

  As Gracie and I worked, yesterday morning, hauling out fork-fulls of winter bedding and spreading it across the corridor field,  flock after flock of geese flew overhead, crying out with their distinctive melancholic call. But they were flying North.  No need for melancholy.  They have decided that the warm-up is on its way.  I am…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 12, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Humour, Life, Photography

  animal photography, Barn, celi, farm photography, farming, glasshouse, heat, hereford pigs, pigs, pigs i heat, spring, standing heat, tane, The kitchen’s garden, Tima

• Chicks and Goats

  

  So this is what I think happened. The night before last a chick began to peep in the incubator. Just after three in the morning. The dogs rose up from their beds and Boo opened the incorrectly latched door (all our doors are old) they went to investigate, Boo put his nose up there to…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 1, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  celi, chicks, chicks and goats, incubator disastors, La Mancha kids, milking goats, The kitchen’s garden

• Chipping

  

  Elsie and Lady Astor, the Dutch Belted Dairy cows, went through their pretend milking routine with perfect precision yesterday afternoon. So you CAN teach old cows new tricks. They walked into the milking parlour one at a time. Lady A first, as usual. Elsie waiting patiently.(They come in through the door on the left of your…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 28, 2015

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, cats, celi, chicks, Dutch Belted Dairy cows, gates, homesteading, ice, kittens, routine, The kitchen’s garden, training cows