Milkweed & Teasel

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Hardening Off

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Every gardener knows the feeling that comes in spring. A few days of good weather early on, and we get to wondering "Can I plant those ...
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Podgelets On The Go

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Friday, 17 May 2013

Spring Lambing Finale

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Finale makes it sounds exciting, but spring lambing was a quiet, easy time with just two ewes in lamb. L845 gave birth at sunrise to twin ew...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013

Podgelets Al Fresco

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The rain passed through, and the sun has come out. It's a balmy 15 degrees in Dorset. It's time to set up an outdoor playpen for the...
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

A bit late for Mother's Day but...

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Grumpy the ewe lambed in the early hours of this morning. I found her licking clean a single ram lamb, strong-looking and up on its feet, wh...
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Sunday, 12 May 2013

Podgelets on Solids

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The pups attempted to eat mum's dinner last night, so I guessed it was time to introduce solid foods alongside mum's milk. ...
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Friday, 10 May 2013

Podgelets at play

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The Podgelets have tripled in size. I can still weigh them in the loaf pan but, like bread dough left to rise, they have expanded to fill th...
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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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