2 Women on 2 Acres

Our beautiful Lizzy is back home, after suffering an appalling unfair dismissal at the hands of her former employers.

It appears, our girl made the wife of her employer jealous! Lizzy took her orders from her master and NOT the mistress of the house, smart girl, if you ask me!!

You could see the headlines in the local gossip column…Two year old bitch in love triangle, only having adoring eyes for her master, wife gets revenge while husband’s away…

You can hear the gossip, ohhh! yes she was definitely after the husband, smooching up and doing all the things a doggy girl will do to win the approval of her master.

But, when the wife gets jealous, beware, Lizzy had to go…
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Mia, my beautiful house cow has finally become of age!! Three weeks ago, the brave girl went a short distance into a neighbour’s paddock with 10 other heifers and 1 beautiful bull.

Mia, once released from the horse box, ran to the top of the hill and gave an almighty MOOOOOOOO!!! The other occupants of the field heard her greeting and ran towards her, she in turn shrieked and ran away for the mottle crew, back towards her mum…that would be ME!!

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This post has taken me a few days to complete, as the weather has taken a turn for the worst. A huge fast moving front hit us about three days ago, and the tempest began, again!!

But, in between torrential rain and roaring winds, Stormy, decided it was time to make an appearance into the world…
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I recently read an interesting article on John ‘Farmer John’ Peterson, who runs a very successful Community Supported Agriculture (CSA for short) farm, called Angelic Organics in Caledonia, just outside Chicago.

‘Farmer John’ has created THE largest CSA in the USA and feeds a whopping 6000 locals every week. This is an amazing concept and really conceptualizes community spirit and how powerful it can be.
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I am nervous, a little scared and full of hope at the same time, is this spring and summer going to be a time when one of my dreams will come true??

When I first saw our piece of paradise, Mother nature gave me a ‘picture’, so vivid, of what this piece of land wanted to be.

I have toiled, sweated and done some really hard work over the time we have been on our piece of paradise.

But, now it time to get busy and finally sow and grow some precious Heirloom seeds…THIS is why I am a nervous wreck!!
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Spring is here and it’s time to get busy, I have been asked for tips on getting a Herbal Ley established in existing pasture, a good question at this time of year.

I am just starting to organize my herbal leys for both of my pastures, just waiting for the rain to ease off!! So how do you get the pasture ready for sowing and how do you protect the seeds from free range chickens and birds?

Well, let me tell you how I am going to do my herbal leys…

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For years, the human race has been removing bits and pieces from the eco-system, the result has been a catastrophe.

The whole commercial agricultural world is suffering from a huge imbalance, this has been caused by the excessive use of chemical fertilisers and more harmful the huge amounts of chemical pesticides.

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I think it is useful if you know a little bit about what goes on under your soil, after all, the main stay of organic gardening is feeding the soil to nourish, the plants and vegetables you intend to grow.

And, if you are not aware of the micro-life that has to exist in the dark depths of your soil to achieve this, then to put it bluntly, it would be like when you were a kid, and your parents used to say ‘If Dylan jumped off a cliff, would you follow?’

Referring to doing something, just because you thought it was the right thing to do, or doing it, because you were told to, without any thought to why you were doing it.

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Organic gardening for me, is about a balance between the plants and nature. The balance of healthy soil, to grow healthy plants or vegetables and working WITH nature to provide that balance.

There are some ‘experts’ that would have you believe, organic gardening is complex, swapping one zap commercial spray for another home made ‘green’ spray. This approach, is missing the point of organic gardening, which is to let nature do its own job. She will help you create a garden of eden, in your own piece of paradise, she will do it gently and all for a little bit of effort on your part.

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Organic Gardening is very ‘chic’ at present, I think we are all a little fed up with rising food prices and decreasing the quality of our supermarket selections.

Nearly gone, are the days when ‘sliced white plastic’ bread was considered the best invention since the wheel.

We are beginning to understand the impact of chemicals on our environment and we are seeing the effects in the changing weather patterns and its getting a little bit scary.

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