How to make an automatic chicken feeder
Well, I may be stretching the word automatic here but I noticed that one set of chicks with free access to feed had a better weight gain than another set whose trough I filled once or twice a day. I …...
View ArticleHave you ever dropped an industrial mixer on your nuts?
I have, and I don’t recommend it. In fact, I would steer well clear of dropping anything with ‘industrial’ in the title onto any part of your reproductive organs. Initially it hurts, but once the...
View ArticleWe’re finally in our new kitchen!
No more struggling along, hauling flour from one side of the kitchen to the other, scaling dough on four square feet of stainless and baking a mere eight loaves at a time. Now we’re rocking with acres...
View ArticleKetchup.
I used to be annoyed when my favourite blogs would stop posting just when I needed them the most, just when the wind, rain and snow abated enough for you to step out and feebly prod the soil with a …...
View ArticleNew Adventures in Bovinity, or how to bucketfeed a calf
Ok, so far it’s just cute pictures and I promised you an adventure, or at least a quick tutorial. So Norman pulled up the other day and when he has something for me he always says ‘Where are you? Well,...
View ArticleMeet Jericho, the holy cow.
She’s not ours. I don’t see how anyone can truly own something with a soul, and you could take it further and say that nothing in this world is really ours, that we are just guardians until it passes...
View ArticleForgive me father, for I have blogged.
How long has it been since your last blog son ? A long time father. Too long. I had not planned for such a long absence, but life, y’know… Life my son, is what happens when you are making other …...
View ArticleFrom pasture to Raised Beds
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile. First I had to get a tractor, then I had to get a tiller and a few other implements, then wait for the weather and tie that up with some …...
View ArticleI’m a lousy farmer
So I’ve planted my potatoes, butternut squash, field pumpkins and melons. Late, as usual, but given that it was a long winter, with a late spring it’s not as bad as it seems looking at the calendar....
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