Milkweed & Teasel

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Mi vacaciones Espana en fotos

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I haven't posted about my riding holiday to Spain because, let's be frank, can you think of anything worse than sitting down at a f...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Podgelets All Grown Up

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The Podgelets have grown up so fast. They will be ten weeks old this Friday. All the boys have gone to their new homes, with quite a few tea...
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Is it a Chirkey then?

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My hen turkeys couldn't wait for Trevor to arrive so they made do with sitting on some chicken eggs. I left them to have a go. After hel...
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Sunday, 2 June 2013

Stag Party

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It's 2nd June and I'm still watching what was supposed to be our 2012 holiday dinners wandering about the place. Our three hen turke...
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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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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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