Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged nettles on 14 May 2008 | No Comments »
According to these people anyway. I’m not sure if picking nettles for processing as they suggest is actually being ‘nice’ to them… but I don’t feel like being nice to them at all, as I managed to get stung on the back of my ankle whilst trimming the sheeps’ feet, and it still hurts! *whine*
anyway, [...]
Posted in grow your own food, home education on 13 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today a family trip out to one of our favourites: Tintagel. Difficult to explain why, as I am not obsessed with Arthurian legend, and there is not much castle there really, but still the whole ruined castle stuck out on a crumbling cliff headland is quite appealing. It’s obvious how easy it would have been [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, tagged chickens, eggs on 12 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another new toy and yes this one was a bit indulgent.. but the egg skelter is so cool, it had to be done.
What a good idea - the eggs are arranged in the order they were laid.. so you eat them in the right order..
take the bottom egg and the rest all roll down; it’s [...]
Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, sheep on 8 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
the window for lambing now draws to a close.. if they squeezed any out now they remaining ewes would have had to have been tupped on the ram’s last day, and be a week late too! - is not going to happen…
So - not a roaring success.
Only one out of the three ewes lambed.. she [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel. I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vermin on 6 May 2008 | No Comments »
Caught in one of the instant death traps this morning. Let’s hope he was working alone. I feel no remorse.. it was him or our food.
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 4 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
what are nettles good for #4
Honestly, I thought nettle beer would be disgusting….and it’s not - its really very good!.. made in a similar way to elderflower champagne (but not quite as wonderful).
Me being me.. I looked at a few recipes for nettle beer, then tweaked it into my own. A hit with us - so [...]
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