It’s too tempting, on a sunny day, and I can’t resist taking photos and videos of the animals
Mrs Silkie and chicks Click below
Hens and Cockerel having a dust bath
The goats having a standoff with the cats
One Nil to Willow Click below
The sheep following each other across the field. Click below
The organisers have arrived and so has their Tesco delivery!
Dawns the day bright – at last
As the sun rises and I take food to the geese, I catch sight of the pheasant who regularly helps himself to goose food. An enterprising bird.
Fairy lights and much more delivered to the barn this evening
Group arriving tomorrow afternoon for two days of R and R – no tech allowed
Proud goats display their certificates on their shed wall
They get a reward of delicious Brussels Sprouts tops
Tomato Salsa
2 red Chilli peppers(seeds removed) harvested from the poly tunnel, 6 cloves of homegrown garlic and a handful of the last fresh cherry tomatoes. Add some olive oil and a few grinds of sea salt. Roast until soft then mash with a fork.
And put into a treasured John Maltby dish and eat with crackers or crudités. Careful, it’s hot!
The muddy, damp days of autumn
Even the sheep are fed up and venturing into the cow barn to lick the mineral bar hanging there and to feel dry straw under their hooves.
My first attempt
at cooking the main course for the monthly community lunch
It was blessed by Vicar Tim who stayed to partake.
I ate at home earlier and am now sitting in the dentist’s waiting room anticipating a tooth extraction!
Apologies (or maybe NOT) for the polemic which follows
For 45 years I have been asked, “why are you a vegetarian?” and only now – probably far too late to save this beautiful, wonderful world on which we are privileged to live, are people understanding the reason. If we care at all about animals, about the future of our own selfish species then watch the documentary that aired last night on BBC 1
“Meat:A Threat to our Planet?”
Contrast this factory farming of sentient creatures with what we see at small holdings like The Gables. We know and see that even a chicken has a personality and needs space in which to roam and scratch and roost. How can meat eaters mindlessly buy factory farmed product without a care for the welfare of the animal or the planet? I am fed up with the question, “Why are you a vegetarian?” I guess it should now be, “Why aren’t you a vegan?” Let’s discuss it round a table of organically grown Gables food some day soon. But it might well be too late.
