July 19, 2008 at 8:01 pm (Wye Community Farm)
Tags: Lambs, Land Rover
An edible lawnmower
Arse. I’ve dented the back door of the Landy and bent the rear ladder. Not too bad though but it was my own fault. I was picking up the livestock trailer to move the sheep between fields and I didn’t secure it to the tow-ball properly. It popped off and the trailer gave me a metallic slap on the backside. Oh well. At least the trailer is ok (which is just as well as we’ve been borrowing it).
Oh, and another thing. You wouldn’t believe how long it takes to clean out a trailer after sheep have been in it. Flipping dung just welds itself to the chequer-plate. I’m beginning to understand why farmers’ have a reputation for being grumpy sods – even the simplest tasks seem end up being twice as much work and take twice as long as you think they ought to. To those who have romantic notions of a small holding and self-sufficiency, be prepared for some hard, smelly graft.
Anyway, the lambs have been weighed. The biggest are around 35kgs so still 5 kilos to go before we take them to the abattoir. Yes, folks they are cute and fluffy (and greasy) but as a meat-eater I have to face the reality of where my food comes from.
- Sean
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July 13, 2008 at 9:55 pm (Buy Nothing New)
Tags: Buy Nothing New, Farming, kent county show, Land Rover, Solar
I was working Friday and Saturday at this weekend’s Kent Show. Got a few new members for CPRE and generally had a good time. Our stand was in the ‘eco-village‘ so we were surrounded by purveyors of rainwater butts and solar heating systems.
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One day I will build a house of straw
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Combined Solar & Wood Stove system on a Kent Peg tile – I want it!!!
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July 5, 2008 at 8:33 pm (Wye Community Farm)
Tags: Farming, Land Rover, Wye, Wye Community Farm
Unloading the lambs into their new home
This morning I was using the Landy for something that a Toyota Prius can’t do – move 40 ewes & lambs. I know as an environmentalist I’m not supposed to have a 4×4, but for once I’ve actually been doing something useful with it.
These are the Wye Community Farm stock that we’ve been grazing on one small paddock and we moved them over to another one before the grass ran out.
Not really much to do with us not buying new things other than it’s been really amazing being involved in a bit of part-time farming, to get an idea of where our food comes from and our much time and effort is involved.
- Sean
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