Milkweed & Teasel

Monday, 7 December 2020

Good News Update

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I know I've been quiet on this site recently. With lockdown, not much new has been happening that I can share, until now. I've bough...
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Thursday, 16 July 2020

When a Chicken is the Good Kind of Tough

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The pandemic and consequential change in people's shopping habits have made some things harder to come by. In my case, I need eggs. The ...
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Sunday, 10 May 2020

Some Good Things

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I've caught up with a few big jobs that were hanging over my head. My sheep got sheared - My shearer from last year, Keiran, came...
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Friday, 1 May 2020

It Ain't Pretty - Well, Some of it is OK

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Spring is here. The cuckoos are calling, the blossoms are already dropping from the cherry trees. The cows are out on grass with their young...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Adapt and Overcome

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Luckily I was able to finish moving house days before we were shut down with the Covid-19 virus. The kennels were finished enough to be habi...
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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Weathering Storms

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Shooting season is over. It was a bittersweet ending. I put on Mike's slippers one last time to greet the guns in the morning and outlin...
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Monday, 13 January 2020

The End of The Season

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Thank you to everyone for your kind messages after my last post. The farm is still here. I am still here. I have good days and bad days. I...
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Jennifer Montero
Two decades ago I left New England for olde England with nothing but my books and degrees in anthropology and art history. After some years toiling in various museums and historic sites, I decided to pursue my passion for the outdoors and enrolled in agriculture college. While working as head gardener on an estate in Dorset, I met my husband, a gamekeeper. His is one of those archaic jobs that only appear in Hardy novels and episodes of Downton Abbey. We now live and work together on a private estate raising game birds. Life in the country is not all bunting and cream teas—more blisters and cold rains. But with a dog leash in one hand and my Debretts Guide to British Etiquette in the other, I am conquering the British countryside, training dogs, caring for pheasant chicks, battling predators, and cooking. LOTS of cooking. In my spare time I tend a flock of sheep, and in winter I butcher and sell local game and wild food. It's hard work, but it's never dull. So sit, read, and laugh along. And be glad that you work in a temperature-controlled building like a normal person
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