The clouds and rain finally cleared this afternoon, giving me an opportunity to capture a summer sunset. Summer sunsets don’t have the flashiness and colour of their spring and autumn counterparts, but they’re still worth watching. The crop in the foreground is peas, not something we see a lot of up here.
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Archive | July, 2011
Caution: dog at work
26 July, 2011
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Work continued today on the refurbishment of the first of our six chicken houses. The hinged, downward opening door came off and was replaced with a sliding door set in plastic tracks. Wooden tracks would swell when wet, jamming the door. And as happened previously, every time I took the camera out someone would insert [...]
Read more Chicken hut maintenance
24 July, 2011
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I started the long chore that is chicken hut maintenance today. Each of the chicken huts needs to be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected, repaired, treated with two coats of wood preservative on the outside, limewashed inside and then returned to use. After cleaning the huts, I prefer to tip them upside down and paint them with [...]
Read more A variation on three-berry jam
21 July, 2011
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The jam-making is continuing. Today, we decided to make three-berry jam but the shortage of strawberries and their replacement with blackcurrants meant we had to revise our long-standing recipe.
Read morePig muck to power farm
21 July, 2011
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We’ve sometimes considered using pig muck to generate electricity so it was interesting to read about a Morpeth pig producer installing an anaerobic digester and turbine to power their farm. Pigs at a farm in Northumberland will soon be heating their own homes from electricity made from their waste. Slurry at Cockle Park Farm near [...]
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