Rain yesterday left the potato field too wet to till today, so I decided to crack on with fencing off an additional pair of pig pens. The new pens will be at the top of our hill, which means they will be for summer and autumn use only. The site is too exposed to the [...]
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Archive | April, 2010
‘So, what do you do?’
29 April, 2010
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One of the questions most frequently asked of me is, “so, what do you do?” The obvious answer would be “I work a croft”. Other replies with equal validity would be “I look after the children”, “I manage the finances”, “I keep pigs and chickens”, “I do the gardening”, “I produce our own food”, ”I tinker” [...]
Read moreCultivating the tattie field
27 April, 2010
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With the BCS 715 rotavator rebuilt and running well, I headed straight out to the tattie field to start work. The ground was still damp and rain was falling, but the soil was just workable despite being slippery with a few patch of bogginess. I’m often criticised by people who think rotavators are environmentally unfriendly, [...]
Read more13 rats in 10 days
25 April, 2010
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Harvey and I have just come in after killing the 13th rat in 10 days. I’m fairly sure we’ve had two separate incursions—the first rabble of rats moving into the muck heap and the second working its way into the workshop—but with Harvey’s help we’ve been able to kill most of the faster than if [...]
Read moreA different challenge
22 April, 2010
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I’ve decided I need to move from a paper-based herdbook and breeding records to a computer-based one that brings together all the data we keep on the pigs. I then need to produce reports that guide our breeding programme, feed through into the finances and—some would say most importantly—provide relevant government bodies with the information [...]
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