Milkweed & Teasel

Friday, 22 November 2013

Thanksgiving Preparations

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We are in the middle of a fortnight's break from shooting. The chiller is empty, aside from a fallow buck the stalker shot a few nights ...
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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Of Tags and Testicles

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This year's crop of lambs are looking strong and healthy. They've finally outgrown the diseases and common accidents that befall bab...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2013

From "The Good Life" to a Better One

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I apologise for my blog absence this past month, but I'm finally able to update you on what has been a difficult time (don't worry, ...
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Thursday, 10 October 2013

Plucking work!

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I harvested four meat chickens this week - stunned, bled and hung them in the chiller to relax. I would love to tell you that I weighed the ...
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Sunday, 6 October 2013

Lambing - the Post Game Roundup

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Lambing officially finished at 1.30am this morning when L817 produced twins. I tended to the little lambs' needs: tubed them with warmed...
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

The Big Picture in a Small Village

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Filming started last week, and the estate is teeming with people in neon yellow vests with radios, and extras in costume drinking coffee out...
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Monday, 16 September 2013

Lambing Live! (and no-so live...)

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Lambing has started, and we've had two births now - one easy, and one fodder for a shepherd's nightmares. Of course I'll start b...
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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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