Milkweed & Teasel

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

A Long Winter Ahead

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It's taken two glasses of wine to get this far. I haven't posted for awhile because Mike was diagnosed with cancer in August and w...
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Tuesday, 10 September 2019

A Beginner's Guide to the Cow

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Our neighbour is a cattle farmer, but he's in hospital with back spasms. For sure an occupational hazard in farming, made worse by the a...
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Friday, 6 September 2019

The County Fair and Autumn's coming

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In August it was our estate's turn to host the County Fair. It's a lot of work for the staff - estate owners want everything to look...
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Thursday, 18 July 2019

June's Work

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Summer has finally arrived and brought not just warm, dry days but many of them in a row. It makes it easier to plan big jobs like getting p...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2019

An Indoor Day. Mostly.

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It's still raining so I've decided to have an office day indoors. Well, mostly indoors; I will have to spend a few hours outside che...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Elderflowers, Lambs, and a Wet June

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I think it's rained for most of June so far. It's cold enough today that I'm wearing a scarf indoors. If I had any wood left I w...
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Saturday, 1 June 2019

Shearing Day

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The bulk of my flock gets shorn once a year. Timing depends on a lot of factors: after the last frost has passed but before it gets too hot,...
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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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