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8 years at Dalmore / Meet Rocky / Dead lamb
Monday 14 May Eight years in! Can’t believe we’ve been here eight years – and yet it feels like we’ve been here forever. At the start, we used…
Pruning weeding and fedging
Well, not surprisingly for February, the weather’s been a bit changeable. We haven’t had any snow but we did have heavy rain Thursday into Friday and the fields are…
Li'l Bud
Back in 2009, our very first ewe to lamb was Jinx; she had a tup lamb that we called Li'l Bud. I got rather attached and decided to sell him for breeding in autumn 2010. To…
Keeping Geese: Breeds and Management by Chris Ashton
Keeping Geese is a complete guide to the domesticated goose. It shows how this intelligent bird has been absorbed into different cultures throughout history: from the taming of…
Grey / Cabbage / Blueberries
Monday 4th July Dry, some sun and a rather brisk breeze. I don’t know what happened to last week, but my To Do list is scarily long. Keeping too many plates…
Snowdrops / Sunshine / Spring cleaning
Monday 15th February The thaw is well underway now. The ditch is high but running freely. I let the cattle out this morning but it’s going to be too wet to let them…
Thaw / Steers out / Hogget / Orchard
Monday 5th March Most of the snow has now gone; it’s been grey and rainy and miserable but at least the taps have unfrozen. After the thaw, the flooding. Culvert our…
Poultry update
Our Hubbard meat chicks are now 7 weeks old and will be changing from chick crumbs to grower / finisher pellets over the next week or so. They are all growing well and have…
Pickling and stuff
It's piddling rain here today. The hills have disappeared in a shroud of cloud. On the bright side. it's not cold and it's given me an opportunity to try out the Driza-bone coat…
Chicken & Eggs: River Cottage Handbook No.11 by Mark Diacono
Chickens are a fantastic addition to a garden or outdoors space - you don't have to live in the back of beyond to have a few clucking around and giving you fresh eggs. They come in…