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The big little woodland plan
We can’t hope to supply all our own firewood, although we are doing surprisingly well so far – we haven’t bought any wood for three years, using what was here already, wood from demo… more →
colour it green diary
the big little woodland plan
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colouritgreen wrote 8 hours ago: We can’t hope to supply all our own firewood, although we are doing surprisingly well so far … more →
new pullets on the block
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colouritgreen wrote 2 days ago: Yesterday we moved some of the hens around. Brown-neck, who was with her two chicks came out of the … more →
waiting for rain
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colouritgreen wrote 1 week ago: The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke u … more →
pork sausages
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colouritgreen wrote 2 weeks ago: We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and a … more →
mud
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colouritgreen wrote 3 weeks ago: Torrential rain. Always makes me laugh when people tell me how the raising of meat uses so much more … more →
mackerel sky
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colouritgreen wrote 4 weeks ago: It’s been unseasonably warm lately – I’ve been doing loads of drying laundry outs … more →
clocks change
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: And I am disoriented once again. I must be getting older… Actually woke refreshed and raring … more →
is it worth it?
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it i … more →
new lamb skins
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We collected the latest lambskins from the lovely people at Devonia yesterday. They are so friendly … more →
pâté
colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: I do like offal. Not only is it versatile and tasty, but often very cheap. When you raise your own … more →
productive weekend
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: We always seem to be overloading ourselves with jobs to be done, always running to catch up. So we d … more →
weighing pigs
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colouritgreen wrote 1 month ago: Sometime ago, I asked on someone’s blog how you weighed a pig. We weighed a lamb once.. and t … more →
14 in the cockerel run
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: We recently moved the 14 ‘chicks’ into the cockerel run, and they are having a whale of … 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 →
equinox and foraging
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colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: Today is the autumn equinox, and despite the pleasant warm weather we have been happening – th … more →
the pigs are gone
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colouritgreen wrote 2 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 2 months ago: Today we killed and dressed and jointed the three cockerels, which are nearly 19 weeks (I miscalcula … more →
sweetcorn
colouritgreen wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been muttering lately that it wasn’t worth growing sweet corn – the full size … more →
the pork project
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colouritgreen wrote 2 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 →
