Very busy here at Lee House as usual !
Tearing around to provide the eggs for the 'Slow
Food Sustainability Conference' last month; slow food provided
very quickly ! Apparently greatly appreciated, so a happy ending.
Almost finished my 'Homeopathy at Welly Level course', extremely interesting
and exciting ! Cannot wait to put it into practice ! Despite all rumours
to the contrary, organic farmers do use conventional veterinary treatment
as soon as a vet deems it necessary. Animal health and farm health overall
are seen as part of the same picture and Homeopathy and other complementary
practices can play an important role in getting it right.
We have a
health plan agreed with our vets and they play a proactive role in building
up a healthy and productive farm unit with us.
Sheep are shorn, I can still walk and I have all my fingers so mission
accomplished!
Leigh has been frantically getting one of the chicken
'caravans' cleared out ready for our new lot arriving in a fortnight.
Silage is made, very nice feeling, knowing that you have all your winter
provisions for the animals safely in the barn.
Off to collect our turkeys this week, day old little cheeping little
fluffy things! Rush them back here and settle them all into their little
heated house until they are big enough and ugly enough to venture out
onto the fields.
We have to be scrupulously clean with them at this
age because organic feed has no routine prophylactic drugs in it.
Young lad coming here for work experience next week, see if he wants
our apprenticeship ? Watch this space!
Vegetables are looking brilliant ! I want to frame them ! And next day
they bolt ! Hopefully we can start to supply our local shop and box
scheme with a few veg so fingers crossed. The veg outnumber the thistles
now, so I think we have arrived ! I am off to water them now so bye
for now.
Have a good month. Grant
