Re-Growing Celery

Re-Growing Celery, I mean how cool is that!

So all you have to do is;

Get yourself a celery clump and cut off the end (where the roots grow)

Then firmly poke 3 tooth picks around the base, so that it doesn't fall into the water completely, 

Put it into a jar full of water, so that the root part is submerged in water.

Then wait 3-4 days and see if there is any movement or change.

Mine started to form a head.

Then wait another 3-4 days and wa-laaa!!

I will plant mine out in a day or two.

Pigs

July - PotBellied Pigs

We got given 2 Pot Bellied Pigs from my mother in-law half way through July.

Such awesome characters! When you go in to the pen, they come snorting and oinking wanting something, as you start to scratch them, they almost go into a trace and topple over, they just love it!

Maggie is pregnant, "we going to have babies! Yay!!". I reckon she's been pregnant for about a month and a half.

And......

My husband, being the spontaneous type; gave us a day to get the pen ready for pigs! He was on his way home, and the pigs where quite far from us. 

So there we were, racing around the farm trying to make a pig pen fit for pigs. Because as we all know, Pigs are escape artist!

When the pigs arrived we made a make shift, off-loading ramp and scuttled them off, with a push and tug down the ramp. They settled in quite nicely.

Behind the pen is the chicken run and behind that is my veggie garden!

Indigenous Zulu Chicken

Zulu Chickens ~ 2010

Our Zulu chickens are beautifully coloured, but are very nervy chickens. They dont let you get close enough for a touch. They give us eggs, but not as much as we would prefer, as they are all over 2 years, when there production level gradually lowers. So if we get a egg a week, we are happy. 

Below is Speckles, one of our oldest hens, she is defiantly the bees knees in the flock, and is not shy to let any other hen know who's the boss with a firm peck. 

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