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Lambs weaned
We weaned our lambs last weekend. The youngest was 18 weeks old, the oldest 21 weeks, so well able to cope without Mum. All the single tup lambs are now bigger than their…
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First frost
We've had our first frost this morning. It's a beautiful day - clear blue sky and bright sunshine, but cold, so I had to root out the wooly hats and gloves. I've…
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Living on One Acre or Less: How to Produce All the Fruit, Veg, Meat, Fish and Eggs Your Family Needs by Sally Morgan
You can grow all the fruit and vegetables your family needs, raise animals for meat and eggs, keep fish and bees, and even produce firewood on a plot of land of just one acre or…
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New hen house
We bought a new henhouse recently. We intend to run three 40 bird flocks - hence the Black Rocks day olds. I approached a local business that makes sheds and the like and they…
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Fencing the orchard
Finally, Dan and John are starting the fencing in the orchard. We've had a few false starts and lots of planning but I think we're really underway. After a minor…
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Meet Paddy / Courses / New queen bee
​ Monday 5th June It’s been wet today. Did I really complain about the lack of rain last month? Ace has been “babysitting” Panda. Tuesday 6th…
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A stroke of luck
One (!) of the major projects we have going on at the moment is setting up the vegetable garden. We are using a 3/4 acre paddock where the coil for the heat pump was installed.…
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The Milk Project Part 4
OK, so following hard on the heels of Part 3, which was written two weeks ago, here's Part 4. About ten days ago, we decided to start bringing the cows and calves in at night…
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Pony blog 1
Smokey (or Munro of Millfield, to give him his posh name) is my Highland gelding. I’ve owned him for 10 years – we were happy hackers, then my chum, Claire, and I broke…
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All change
We've moved sheep, cattle and hens today - busy, busy! The Black Rocks needed a bigger pen and we wanted them out of the Orchard, so thate we could get the sheep and…
