Lucky day

What a day 

Had a great day trading as kts kitchen at Vintage, Retro & Handcrafted Fair - Port Isaac Village Hall. Great sales, Lovely People and For the first time in my life I came second in the raffle. Wow a hamper of goodies which I will really enjoy. I have decided port Issac is very steep loading and unloading of car was a challenge. Worked off a few calories. If only I had had cake!! Well worth the trip though.

Came home to nine sheep in the field!! My neighboring farm had hedge cut in preparation for a new fence and um this created a few holes in the hedge and yes my three naughty sheep found them easily. They didnt want to come home after chasing said sheep them round the field a few times they were left to be rounded up later. Got home tonight to all of the sheep in my field. So in the moon light in account of my touch batteries dying on me mid field I repaired the holes. Well in the dark I think I have we will see in the morning!!!

Now making stock for tomorrows market I will be well chuffed if I have a repeat of today minus the hills hehe.

Cornwall Life

December 2014 page 29 - Two page article about me and my smallholding and KT's Kitchen Produce. I am happy with the article. Was a shock to see a full page photo of me in a magazine. Thats something I can say has never happened to me before. I hope the readers find it interesting. When I get asn electronic link I will edit this blog.

Bye Bye Pigs

As my second lot of pigs went today it was a sad moment but my freezer will be full of bacon and pork to keep me going for the coming year I do feel bad that they trusted me and followed me straight into the trailer. This time I am not taking them to the slaughter myself a local farm who butchers meat and sells has bought the pigs from me. I get some meat back and payment for pigs. It hasnt made a profit but I know where my meat has come from and can continue the satisfactory feeling that the girls whilst here had the best life possible.

Only naughty sheep, Ducks, chickens and bees for the winter months!!

Next round of the sheep escapology war goes to me!!

I got home this evening to a full compliment of sheep!! No escapees!! That was after rounding them up again this am from next door and putting yet another barricade in the way!! lets see how long before they hatch another plan!!

Very muddy in the field now and pigs bless them their last night at the smallholding.  

Outwitted by sheep!

Yes the little horrors! Well three of them anyway. I fill a hole in the fence they find another one. Always the same three sheep. The other 6 are very well behaved. I have a ringleader sheep and the other two follow!! The pigs are content in staying put

If they arent escaping they love to get tangled up in whatever they can!!

Still love them to bits even if on a saturday night after a long day i was untangling a sheeps legs from the fence.

Tomorrow - lets hope the weather is good as soon as its light to go hole hunting - then onto a market!!!

What a peaceful place i live - My chaotic life certainly makes up for it!!!  Never dull and still always smiling.

The pigs are content to stay put although they wont be here after monday!!!

Pigs meet ponies

Nextdoor farm has ponies. The sheep decided to escape and have a day out on nextdoors farm. The sneaked through a hole they have found. I went to get the sheep back and the pigs followed me. The sheep were easy to get back i said home and pointed at the hedge and they did as i asked!!! That will be a first.

The pigs well as i got them pig food meet the ponies from nextdoor. Ponies chased pigs back in to field!!

The hole is all blocked off now and all my animals back home!!

What Katie did next...............

Thats the only title I could think of today.

Pigs bless them - done a lovely job of digging up the weeds in next years veg patch. Digging up weed roots in the main field.

Today the wind blew down the duck/chicken fence - Ducks and chickens all over place. I decided to try to get them back in the coop. The pigs decided to help me only they chased the chickens and ducks.

So I decided feed would do the job - I walked up the lane to the feed shed turned round to find 6 ducks, 10 chickens and two pigs following me. I got the feed and the said line up followed me back to the field  and got them all back where they should be!! Soo comical

Sheep well they are just in the hedge quite literally eating away the leaves.

Aga and boiler not working - plumber been boiler working aga not playing!!

Pigs have a few more jobs before they leave

Day of Rest or not as the case maybe

Rain glorious rain- not!!

The pigs bless them are very busy digging up the blackberry roots in the secret garden and dont seem to care. Excellent works girls keep it up just leave the blackcurrants and raspberries alone as you have done and keep munching.

Sheep were hiding in the pig sty out of the rain this morning - shame I had to go find them in the rain!! They have wooly coats to keep them dry yes you guest it I got soaked!

Looks like the Ducks have been mud wrestling and the chickens are going to need wellington boots!

Bees seem to be hibernating

Cats dont wont to go out as much.

Field is starting to look boggy

All the evidence is there it looks likes winters on its way!!

Advertising and marketing

The last few days have been about advertising and marketing. I re-evaluated my current markets and have changed a few. I have new deli orders  so all change ready for xmas rush