Milkweed & Teasel

All the animals like to see the truck arrive, but for all different reasons. The sheep make full use of it to scratch those hard-to-reach it...

Our first shoot day is Saturday, less than 48 hours away. We are getting through a long list of jobs that still need sorting before the firs...

I am really enjoying my first time raising turkey chicks. Each week, they grow older and demonstrate new (well, new to me) behaviours that I...

It just so happens that Mike and underkeeper Ian share a birthday (albeit 30 years apart). On Saturday, Mike turned 50 and Ian 20, so it was...

Eight turkey chicks hatched out this morning to add to our growing flock. They are huge chicks - So far, not one of them has grumbled a...

We have two big chest freezers containing our year's supply of homegrown, hunted and bartered meat. They now live in a lean-to attached ...

Everyone loves animal stories. This first big book I devoured in one sitting was Aesop's Fables .  I remember my sister, maybe seven yea...