Book
One of the books I have been working on for the past year came out recently and the publisher sent me some copies. I started work on this book about […]
Monthly Archives: April 2017
The Problem of Orange Peel
OK, so orange peel is probably only a problem if you are a fanatical, bulk-buying, recycling, home-made, home-grown, no-waste obsessed kind of person who just happens to have 30 kg of […]
Leftovers
After Easter we spent some time eating leftovers and of course leeks. We have a lot of leeks. I save our leeks all winter, standing tall on the hugelkultur to eat […]
Digging a hole
Kainaat likes to dig a hole, mainly he does it to impress girls. He shared this knowledge with Zephi. However, Zephi is a completely different calibre of dog. He isn’t a […]
Duck Confit Ragu
I sent off one of my incubators and 15 fresh Pekin duck eggs to a local school this week – they are going to hatch out ducklings – squeak, how […]
Lambing Ups and Downs
I think last year I wondered why I had chosen to lamb over a bank holiday when the site was busy. I am pretty sure I resolved not to do […]
Polytunnel of Dreams
A lot has been happening here …. too much to write just now so here are some photos of the polytunnel of dreams over the past couple of weeks. We […]
Lambing 2017
Lambing has started here on the smallholding, just in time for Easter. Very early this morning Bobtail had triplets, two ewe lambs and a ram lamb. As an over-diligent mum […]
Pet Turkeys
I thought I had two pet turkeys. Life never turns out as you expect it to. The two turkeys that survived from the five we hatched out last year were […]
Pig Pregnancy Test
So, you have done your AI, but how do you know if your pigs are pregnant? There’s no need to hang around and wait for them to pee on a […]
