I do my very, very best to work hand  in hand with nature, but just sometimes our human activities tip the scales and create an imbalance. ...

Sunday 22nd October 2017 Rounding up the meat birds ***Warning*** This post concerns itself with the slaughter and processing of chicke...

28th August 2016 Little chicks set loose into big wide world The little chickens, destined for the table, were let out of their pen today ...

I have written about the Three Sisters system of growing before. For those who missed it, here's a quick resume. Grow sweetcorn, squas...

Every year I give you a photo of a huge combine harvester looming out of the dust and rumbling past the edge of our garden. Well not this ye...

Just a quick one. Thank goodness we harvested these when we did.  192 sweetcorn cobs in a wheelbarrow For, although some of them had...

This was the view from the bedroom window when we woke up on Tuesday morning. For on Monday they came to harvest the wheat field next doo...

  After the fields are harvested, we certainly notice more rodent activity on the farm. Usually Gerry catches plenty of voles (short-taile...