Milkweed & Teasel

Our first season here and it's not a total disaster yet! Our last hatch came off this past Tuesday. Twelve hatches in all this year, and...

I posted last July about Mike's day participating in a reality TV show called Ladies of London . Well, it seems they actually made it a...

When we moved home, we needed to find a new shearer. The first guy we booked never showed up. That was two weeks ago. There's another sh...

Friday was the last day of egg picking - the daily chore of collecting pheasants' eggs from the laying pens. This means we can release t...

Spring is the season that catches me out every time. Weeds go from nonexistent to knee-high. I find myself wearing only one sweater and tha...

Turkey mom is down to one chick. And of course anything else she chooses to tuck under her enormous bulk. Being a big fan of the game "...

We're in the middle of pheasant hatching season now. We've taken off ( gamekeeper speak for "dealt with") four hatches so ...