Tag: woman farmers
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ELEVEN PIGLETS
Last night around midnight Molly gave birth to eleven good sized little piglets. I was caught by surprise by the numbers and only had one small towel with me. This got damp fairly fast drying off one piglet after the other. So I took off my shirt and used that as well, by baby number…
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A scrap of paper
I had a fantastic line to write to you today. The words came to me while I was eating dinner cooked by one of the volunteers surrounded by chattering and laughing young people. It was a sublime collection of words that encapsulated my day. So I tore off a little strip of paper towel from…
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Mirror, Mirror
On the Wall. Who is the peahen of them all? Vanity thy name is Geraldine. Now that the peahens are out they all spend a considerable amount of time in the garage looking at themselves in the mirror and they do preen too! Not everyone is impressed. Aunty Anna and Naomi across the way. Two…
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The joy of new food
One of the rotations for the workers of the Farmy is the Kitchen Mama day. (Some of the other responsibilities are, Swine Herd, Water Boy, Chicken Handler, Milk Maid, Gardener, etc) With the Kitchen Mama (gender has no influence here, whether woman or man they are Kitchen Mama): for a whole day one worker takes…
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148 Bales
Haymaking has commenced with 148 bales of rustly dry hay. Not quite all in the barn yet, but the girls and I will finish that today. The only hiccup was when the hay man and I went to push my hay rack out of the barn where it had rested for the winter and it…
The Kitchen's Garden 