Saturday, 30 January 2016

in the company of prey

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 All my life I have spent time with animals: dogs, cats, goats, donkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, lovebirds, budgies, chickens, duck...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

conversation

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I like to talk with trees. It's not  necessarily  a verbal communication, though quite often conversations do begin with an uttered wor...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

oh the life of a chocolatier

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We live in an interesting community: a heady and often strange mix of folks from all over the world with all sorts of appetites. There's...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Happy Birthday!

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Today is my gran's birthday. She would be 94 if she was still with us. I miss her. The 'wee wummin wi white curly hair in a tartan b...
Monday, 24 August 2015

what to feed a hen

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Here in Costa Rica there are 3 types of chicken feed available in the stores: starter, layer and meat raiser. They all basically have the sa...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

Chicken news

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Last Saturday I added 4 new chickens to the flock: 2 brahmas and 2 silkies. I had initially thought of having only brahmas as they are a du...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Black Soldier Fly Bin

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So I re-did the bins. The plastic bins were good enough, and I'm still using a scaled down version of the most simple, but I felt I was...
Friday, 12 June 2015

home farm update

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After 3 weeks away I've returned to find everything fine. Which is nice. A little slow perhaps, but nothing disappeared or died. The s...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Propagating cacao

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The Talamanca region of Costa Rica has been growing cacao for millennium: the indigenous BriBri used it as both sacred medicinal and food; t...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Soldiers

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The soldiers have been here for 3 weeks today. And it's quite something how far we've come. Three weeks ago I caught two of the fema...
Monday, 27 April 2015

Duckweed update

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It's been a couple of weeks of experimentation and observation. Actually it's been a lot of fun and has made me quite content to do ...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

hill farm or home farm or upper farm? Importance of naming

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I'm developing a new farm, a small, integrated, efficient and exciting facet of the larger farm. One that will no doubt take up a lot of...
Friday, 2 May 2014

catching up

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The farmer and I have been trying to get away since January, and finally this week we did: into the mountains for two nights, then to the ci...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

honey

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I've been enjoying honey these days. Didn't used to like it, found the smell cloying and too heavy, reminiscent of fields of rape an...
Sunday, 1 December 2013

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There's something both liberating and limiting about being a purist. Maybe the liberation comes with the limitation. When one knows and ...
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Sunday, 10 November 2013

sunday morning rain brings delicacy

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These appeared at the foot of our stairs this afternoon. A delicacy when still contained in their egg  shaped casing, they don't seem s...