Title: Comment: <p>Thankyou MR DARLING anything elese you need just let us know!!!</p><p>Maybe half a pig a few chooks ,before you know it you will stop us rearing those and anything elese the working man can provide for his family with some pride.!!!!!</p><p>Tell you what count the seeds in the packet so we have to go to the supermarkets and be held to ransom , because we cannot buy enough food to support our selfs, and familes .</p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>I would like to say a thankyou for the encouraging comments about the chooks. Everything has  settled down for now. </p><p> cheers!!!!</p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: The boss  came home from work and took her to one side, the dammage to her face was not nice, but we think that we have a chance to save her, so we have put her with the ducks, so she can have a bit of company while she gets better. Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>Sory I have been away for so long just got buissy.</p><p>So my chickens are back out after a long spell in the bird house, it gets very wet up here in yorkshire and the snow did not help.</p><p>we have intrduced a rather beautiful young man to the girls who are all young and soooo OOOOO!!!!!</p><p>HE was fine untill we put another young lady in with him and he duly attaced her, so we watched for a bit and things settled down , but this afternoon I could not find her, when I did she was under our old rabbit hutch which we use for broody girls .</p><p>This is the realy sad thing I think that he has attaced her and she is dying...............</p><p>I love my girls and this has really got to me. I feel that I have failed her , I do understand there is a natural pecking order and that spats do happen, and I do know that the natural world is not a nice place sometimes, but this leaves me empty.</p><p>I realy would like to hear if this sort of thing has happened before.</p><p> </p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>I gathered the first of the seasons brambles today, what a treat, there was not enough to do anything major with but we all had one ,by they were lovely.</p><p>So a harvest is very nearly insite for probably the best hedgerow fruit I know.</p><p>I have got everything out for the big chutney cook up marrow is first, followed by some chow chow and then anything I can get my hands on.</p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>Yep its  here the school holidays and it has rained and rained for sooo.... long it is me that has water on the brain!.</p><p>But there was a glimmer of golden stuff shining through the clouds, so out they went ,and with in seconds of freedom there was mud everywhere, but guess what I dont care...... </p><p>The back field was cut of its barley and  bailed , the best thing of living on the very outskirts of a village is having fields as your kids play ground.</p><p>I have been hedge spotting and upto now found, apples ,brambles ,walnuts, </p><p>crabbapples, all the elderberrys are turning, and some cobb nuts.</p><p>The stocking up of the pantry is comming on, really sad but I was looking at mincemeat recipies for christmas and some different christmas cake recipies.</p><p>We have lost 2 chickens ,one to old age and the other we think went eggbound and it burst insde her and so we decided to give her a gentle send off as we found her bairly consious.</p><p>Thats it for now..</p><p> </p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>I have just put my order for autumn potatoes, onions and garlic. The chard is doing well and is the kale, the corgettes are doing that thing growing into marrows over night, so marrow chutney and jam are next on the agenda.</p><p>We have just cleaned the hen house for the uptenth time of red mite and dusted the chooks, the rabbit and cats got done to, not that they have red mite but the usuall little visitors for this time of year.</p><p>My last little angel!!!! gose to school this september so I have set up a craft club reuseing and recycling garments and the like,   </p><p>The aim  for the rest of the year is to put more fruit trees in and bushes ,to make more use of the plot that we have got and to get into those niggly corners of the shed and green house that we keep putting off , and to keep on preserving as well.</p><p> </p> Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>They are in and frozen, the next lot will be sewn this weekend, next to go into the freezer is braud beans ,rhubarb,currants, corrgettes in different guises, dwarf beans, g gogs, and lots of homemade bakes.</p><p>When it comes to home made bakes I love my freezer, as I live so far away from any shops its great, you have to be self sufficient as much as possable, not just in food but every day things making and mending clothes, keeping house ,keeping your family wholesome and healthy. </p><p>Do you know what ,I do count my blessings every day, and if you  just take some time out you really can see the beauty in life and all of her wholeness. Happy harvesting  and here is to filling your pantrys with  good produce and satistifaction to see you through the seasons to come.</p><p>DONT YA JUST LOVE IT.....</p> Submit > < Back

Comment: Blackcurrants have some sort of catapillar infestation is there any organic way of getting rid and not to use chemicals ,its areal shame its been the best crop Ive had so far!!! Submit > < Back

Title: Comment: <p>Its starting to get  buissy with the whole world of preserving mint jelly this weekend, followed by air drying orrigano, sage, thyme,sewing some more parsley flat leaved type not grown before! my chives have not come back from splitting this year, so I think that will mean some more sewn.</p><p>All my winter crops are showing prommis this year, looking to make a small wind turbine to pump water so I can grow watercress since I do not have any running water near by .</p><p>I have started to make some new winter quilts as the old ones are getting shabby.</p><p>I have got my list for different flavoured vodkas this winter, they include spiced, cranberry sloe,chilly (which is more like a shot).The elders seem to be very nearly there for thier flowers, so elderflower cordial and champers will be next,then after that elderberry jam and jelly.</p><p> </p> Submit > < Back