As I walked through to the back door at 6am, I noticed the house felt appreciably colder than it has for the past few mornings so I wasn’t surprised when I looked out the window and saw a light dusting of snow on the ground. When I went up the hill to feed the pigs [...]
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Easy mulching
3 May, 2012
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I maintain a thick mulch of grass clippings, sawdust and woodchips beneath our spruce trees to keep the weeds, particularly nettles, at bay. It keeps the space open for the chickens—and for us when we need to catch the birds or find their eggs. The mulch also provides a good habitat for all manner of [...]
Read more Sun makes for happy pigs
28 April, 2012
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The sun finally emerged this morning, bringing a brief end to a 12-day spell of continuous cloud cover, heavy rain, hail and sleet. It also brought out Delilah and her piglets for half an hour’s exploration and mischief. One of the three is a monster of a piglet. The others are about average in size. [...]
Read moreEnter the Lone Dungslinger
26 April, 2012
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Shloop, shloop, blurp… hurgh! Squelch, squelch, plop, squelch, squelch, squelch, hurgh! SHPLOOMPH! Yes, it’s one of those days where the Lone Dungslinger spends hours extracting, carrying and hurling **** in an attempt to set a personal best in Synchronised Dung Flinging . The Dungslinger is out early, fully waterproofed against both rain and muck, fork [...]
Read more Welcome to the bog
24 April, 2012
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We’ve had heavy rain and numerous hail storms for a week, transforming the croft from a hillside to a bog. It’s not quite the worst we’ve had it, yet, but that’s only because we didn’t start with snow melt. The pigs are fairly happy with all the water and mud, except when it flows into [...]
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