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Pork sausages
We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and all the bit and pieces saved from the butchery day. Delish. We also set aside enough sausage meat fo… more →
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pork sausages
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and a … more →
half hour hard labour
colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: What a glorious sunny day. We dug, cleaned out animal housing, stacked logs, fixed drains, cut grass … more →
is it worth it?
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it i … more →
weighing pigs
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Sometime ago, I asked on someone’s blog how you weighed a pig. We weighed a lamb once.. and t … more →
first fire
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Cold today, and this evening we lit the wood burner for the first time, since spring. We also ate th … more →
butchery day
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Today himself had a day off, I set up lots of stuff for our son to do home education wise, and we sp … more →
the pigs are gone
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Loading them up was a little difficult – our cunning arrangement of outer gate meets inner gat … more →
animal husbandry day
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Today we killed and dressed and jointed the three cockerels, which are nearly 19 weeks (I miscalcula … more →
the pork project
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Now on the final leg of the big pig plan, the pigs are grown, we think they are ready (but this is o … more →
summer again
colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: That’s a change – sunny day, lovely. And for first time for days we are not living in a … more →
swine flu and pigs
colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Whilst I was ill, lots of people asked whether our pigs would be OK or would be vulnerable to catchi … more →
bluster
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: Really blustery today, but thankfully dry. It did mean we lost some of the damson crop – the e … more →
already autumn
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colouritgreen wrote 3 months ago: I like this time of year, wandering around the perimeter of our land, gathering blackberries from th … more →
freezer bottom jam
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: It’s hit me, just how serious our freezer crisis could be - – the lack of space that i … more →
windfall jam
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colouritgreen wrote 4 months ago: My Mum always claims that August is autumn not summer. Actually I can see her point – even wit … more →
last steps in the big freezer plan
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colouritgreen wrote 5 months ago: another rainy day, so, after a late and pleasant start, drinking coffee with family etc, we declared … more →
pea pod soup - ewww
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colouritgreen wrote 5 months ago: Those heaps of fresh green lovely looking pea pods just look too good to waste. But what to do with … more →
rain!
colouritgreen wrote 5 months ago: We have been promised rain for days. Yesterday the forecast gave a 60% chance.. yet it was clear bl … more →
more water collection
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colouritgreen wrote 5 months ago: We took the opportunity with the water butts being empty to have a swap around. We are saving enoug … more →
