Milkweed & Teasel

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Stupid is as stupid does

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This is my 100th post, and I was planning on writing something 'deep and meaningful'. Instead I'm going to write about something...
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010

The transplant was a success...

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I swapped Barbara her dummy egg for a pair of ducklings, and she settled right down on them. No questions asked. I've been checking ever...
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Monday, 29 March 2010

Ducks!

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Announcing the new arrivals - Two ducklings hatched this morning, with a bit of assistance. I will let them warm up and dry off in the in...
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Saturday, 27 March 2010

Ten Acres - Now What?

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Walking the boundary of Milkweed Farm Now that Milkweed Farm is officially ours, I've started to worry that I won't be able to ma...
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Home Again

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After a fantastic visit with my sister in San Francisco, I have just returned home and found everything as I left it - wet dogs, a chainsaw ...
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

On Hiatus

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I'm away as of tomorrow and won't be updating the blog until I return in two weeks. Though I'm looking forward to a break and a ...
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Saturday, 6 March 2010

The herbivore's dilemma

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I'm going to visit my sister in San Francisco next week. It's only for 10 days but you would be surprised how much food our small me...
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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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