Milkweed & Teasel

Monday, 30 July 2012

From Dovecote to Dove-not

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Gamekeeping, in its broadest definition, can cover many jobs on an estate, but the common thread is always the care of game destined for the...
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Nellie 1999 - 2012

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Our oldest retired spaniel Nellie had a stroke during the night. A trip to the vets confirmed it, and Nel was put to sleep in my arms a...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

The Expletive Post

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The last of this year's ram lambs went to ice camp this week. I loaded the pair into my stock trailer around dawn for the half hour driv...
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Friday, 6 July 2012

Harvest interruptus

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This was Wednesday's meagre raspberry harvest - Just enough to add colour to my breakfast cereal. I was given 6 young canes last ye...
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

The Leftovers Post

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Yesterday was officially our last pheasant hatch of the season. Once the chicks were collected and on the road bound for their new homes,we ...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Country Life List

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There is an old joke that goes “How do you make a million dollars in your first year of agriculture? Start with two million dollars, and kno...
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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Jubilation

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Mike and I were invited to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with our neighbours in the next village, who we've got to know...
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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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