Milkweed & Teasel

Friday, 13 January 2012

Le Post Prime

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Amelia and Laura - the fabulous women behind Harvest Kitchen Sisters blog - included me as part of their Guest Blogger Series. Can I sugges...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Bugs, Bellies, and Bags

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We've been feeding the freezer over the holiday season. There are only 3 more weeks left to harvest pheasant and partridge, and this win...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

The 'Post' Post

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Disparate worlds collide in my mailbox. I say 'mailbox' (or post box as it's called in England) but it's really just a rec...
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Thursday, 8 December 2011

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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Pheasant shooting continues apace. Our regular schedule is Friday - Saturday - Monday, with the odd Tuesday thrown in to keep us off the str...
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Monday, 28 November 2011

Zen and the Art of Park Deer

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Ian, our work experience lad, has been practicing the art of gralloching deer as part of his college course, just down the road from us at a...
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Sunday, 20 November 2011

Easy Sunday Morning

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It's perfect Sunday morning weather: grey, foggy, a bit of drizzle on the windows. I don't need much of an excuse to drink a pot of ...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

A bird in the hand

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November is a prime sport shooting month. We're shooting pheasant and partridge three times a week on the estate. I work three dogs per ...
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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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