Produce
It’s not a lot, but it’s enough to bring down the grocery bill. We have a lot of food growing (soon the potatoes will be ready) and I feel pleased to be surrounded by things we have grown. tomatoes of mixed heirloom varieties add colour on our dining table as they ripen in the warmth […]
They’re here!
Our special delivery looked something like this: Yep. We have cows at Fangorn Farm! It’s very exciting. They are so lovely! We adore the little calf! He’s so cute! We’re expecting a couple more special deliveries – two more calves will be born! Excuse me while I look out the window… Oh look! Cows! They […]
Stay tuned!
I mentioned in a post somewhere that there are some exciting things heading our way soon. Stay tuned. Watch this space. Something exciting is going to happen at Fangorn Farm! It has something to do with all the fencing going on. Anyone brave enough to guess what’s happening?
Chickens
The hens investigate their chook run for the first time. The chooks like their yard! They have already done a good job of sorting out and scratching the ground. It was also fun to throw some of our food scraps out for them – much easier than taking the bucket of scraps down to the […]
Chickens!
After more than two years of being chickenless, we now have 4 new young birds! There are three white ones and one brown one. Georgia calls hers Chelsea, whilst Matt calls his Alex. The children are understandably very excited to have chickens again! Over the past few weekends, a sturdy and safe chook house has […]
Treechange Tuesday: sheds
Writing about this topic has got Monte and I talking about how we would do things differently. Some days we don’t think that we would change very much; other days we talk of changing many things! Thank you, Andrew, for inspiring me to discuss this topic! Most recently, MG and I talked about how we […]
Plaiting Garlic!
They say that it’s a good idea to plant garlic on the winter solstice and harvest it on the summer solstice, and we pretty much did that this year (albeit a few weeks late on the summer end). I remember planting out 365 garlic cloves with Monte way back in June. We planted different varieties, […]
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