2 days ago by Michelle Stern

As good parents, we try to teach our children about the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Or, more simply: treat others how you want to be treated. The same should be true for our food system. I am hard pressed to believe that the parents who encourage their kids to tre ...

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4 days ago by colouritgreen

Although having a couple of lovely sunny days this weekend, there is definitely something autumnal in the air, and if nothing else given away by our harvest. We are picking a punnet or two of blackberries every day, and starting to keep an eye on the hazelnuts, well the ones the squirrels have left. ...

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5 days ago by colouritgreen

Oh joy. Some farmer has imported cattle from a restriction zone area in Germany, and with it, brought in blue tongue - Defra latest This is exasperating. If I understand this correctly, the farmer was only able to import the capital as we are now in a protection zone in Devon, and we are in a protec ...

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6 days ago by colouritgreen

When we dug bed 9 in our lawn, we only finished it in late spring, and started to barrow in compost from the compost heap. But time was against us, the plants to go in had started to out grow their pots, and we were only halfway across the bed with compost before we decided we had to plant or lose t ...

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7 days ago by colouritgreen

We borrowed a homemade egg candler. It’s a simple thing, just a wooden box, with a light bulb socket inside, and in the top of the box, a small hole, through which the light shines. Place the egg on the top, turn on the light, and see what you can see. The reason we candled the eggs, is because the ...

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9 days ago by colouritgreen

One of the reasons we went chicken shopping yesterday was the firm conviction I had come to that our three ‘chicks’ hatched back in the spring, must be cockerels. This was largely based on sod’s law. I mean what are the chances they would all be girls? and as they all looked the same.That and we had ...

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10 days ago by colouritgreen

Yes, I did say that from now on we raise our own chickens and with ten already, we had enough. So not sure how it came about that we went chicken shopping. It started with a conversation agreeing that if, in the future, we were to get more hens, we might consider some hybrids. There are a lot of arg ...

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11 days ago by admin

by Barbara L. Minton (NaturalNews) Victory gardens are popping up all over. Last seen during World War II, these gardens now represent our fight to regain control of our lives and our health. They are the first battlefields against the increasing corporate tyranny, a battle that may end with us thro ...

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12 days ago by colouritgreen

Last year we had missed the autumn planting time for garlic and so planted in spring, and we had a reasonable crop. This year we did a little trial, we planted in autumn, and spring, and by coincidence, some of the autumn planting got horse manure, the rest did not. No surprise really, that the fert ...

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14 days ago by colouritgreen

Time for a sheep update. Well overtime really, as we were asked by Sandra last month how they are getting on. Not much to report really, they are fine, we have been doing their feet, preventing flystrike with crovect, and rotating them through our three grazing areas, the big field, the little field ...

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