On farm classes
Just to remind us what total amateurs we are, Adam went this morning to build a farrowing nest for our girl pig who we suspected might be pregnant, and discovered we had piglets. Eleven of them. Of course it happened the first morning Dad was home. Not yesterday. […]
Three more little pigs joined us last week. Although these three are temporarily being borrowed by a friend of ours over the road (with the best permaculture garden I've ever seen) and an old pumpkin patch to dig up. […]
Sometimes it's just about how you look at things. Your choice. See what you see. You choose your response. We've got a bit of shaking up going on down here and it's all exciting and unnerving and our brains are jangling a bit. You know that feeling? Take the […]
I hope you've squeezed in doing something you wanted to do too, this weekend. Here's to farmgirls. xxx
Here's to you and a celebratory new year, perhaps with time off, and family and good food and maybe sunshine and sand if you're in our part of the world. I wish all good things for you! *clink* Thanks for dropping in here to visit, I appreciate your company […]
We've moved our laying flock from our acre block over to the farm. Very exciting for us, not so much for poor Casanova left behind (he actually belongs to the neighbours, he just lived with our ladies.) Poor folorn rooster. He spent the first day in the empty […]
Tomorrow morning, starting out at 4.30am with a farming friend who also raises chickens, I'm going to my first abattoir. With my meat chickens aboard. This has been fascinating. These quick growing meat chickens kinda challenged my slow food mentality, and we'll try a slightly different breed next time […]
I broke a fence today. (Actually it wasn't today – this is a post I drafted earlier this week before the week got sidetracked, but more on that tomorrow.) Not this exact fence, this is a photo I took earlier. Same farm, different paddock. I detatched the springy electric gate […]
The tiny chicks who arrived just five weeks ago are no longer so tiny. Ah, meat chickens. What a strange animal. They really do double in size every week, which is a little bit freaky. I heard this week of a friend of a friend who had a large flock […]
… leaving the hats and the suncream at the back door. … admiring the coffee trees, and the cherries turning bright red, almost ready for picking. … now grown up enough to open and shut electric fences. This is a big deal. … enjoying the glorious weather with […]