Milkweed & Teasel

Monday, 25 February 2019

What's been happening with the sheep this week.

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My horned ewe did lamb a couple hours after I posted. She popped out a nice healthy ewe lamb, unassisted. The good news is the ewe lamb is a...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Our New Butchery

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This might be kind of a dull post, but there are pictures of cute lambs at the end of it. You can just skip ahead. This year, we built a ...
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Saturday, 9 February 2019

Storm Eric

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We've been battling rain and strong winds here in the UK, but lambing goes on. Five ewes have lambed now, and I have 4 ewe lambs and 4 r...
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Saturday, 2 February 2019

Annual Holidays & Miss Betty

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We had our last shoot day of the season yesterday, in spite of the snow. All of these photos were taken by Alice. She's one of our regul...
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Thursday, 31 January 2019

Polar Vortex

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I'm not a meteorologist, but I don't think the polar vortex has come over as far as Wales. However, we woke up to the coldest mornin...
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Thursday, 24 January 2019

OK, So. Where Were We...?

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It's been over a year since I've written a post. So. Where were we? We are nearly at the end of shooting season, and our last day ...
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Monday, 21 May 2018

A Long Coffee Break

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I seem to have gone on an extended hiatus. I apologise. Nothing bad has happened, aside from the regular ups and downs of farming life. I ...
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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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