Milkweed & Teasel

Thursday, 22 October 2015

First Day

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Well, sort of first day. Our shoot season officially starts on Saturday, but we always have a stir-up day, a sort of full dress rehearsal, a...
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Thursday, 8 October 2015

Autumn Harvests, Goat Magic, and Miss Socks

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It's autumn in the Welsh Marches. Our fruit trees are groaning under the weight of apples and pears - var. "Cissy" - I ...
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Friday, 25 September 2015

We've Passed!

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The results are in from the vets - our new nanny goats are TB free, and free from Johne's Disease, CAE, and CLA.  We're all...
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Monday, 24 August 2015

White Gold

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After a few days of bribing the goats with grain and with a little help from Mike to steady the front end, I have collected my very first ha...
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Thursday, 20 August 2015

Little gifts

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It's late summer now. The hay in the field is baled, and the combines have started bringing in the corn. The partridge pairs have formed...
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Friday, 7 August 2015

Babies Day Out

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Today, my old Buff Orpington hen took her brood of 6 foster turkey chicks for their first walk outside. She looks as proud as any new...
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Friday, 31 July 2015

Greener Grass

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It's moving day for the ewes, who have been sharing Kitty's paddock. The sheep eat the excess grass in her paddock, which helps Kitt...
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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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