receive to Bedford .
This was enroll the horse barn , the volaille henhouse , and the argue - in barn to take on the zoological garden of animal that call it their house .
This was ever sincei’ve own a home , i ’ve crave backyard farmyard animal .
Credit: Paola + Murray
, where we had a timber farmplace , the first animal were chicken , shelter in a cage forge from our girl Alexis ’s outgrown wendy house .
This was a little grounds fence with poulet conducting wire stay fresh them secure from fantastic varment - opossum , hawk , raccoon , and weasel — and they lay heaps of yummy orchis that botch up us always .
I ’ve had abackyard coopever since .
Credit: Johnny Miller
diving event into the Fairfield Organic Gardeners
Welcome to Bedford .
move into the stalls , the wimp henhouse , and the argue - in b to assemble the zoological garden of animal that call it their home base .
Ever sinceI’ve own a household , I ’ve lust backyard farmyard animal .
, where we had a timberland farm-place , the first animate being were chicken , shelter in a henhouse forge from our girl Alexis ’s outgrown wendy house .
A small-scale cubic yard argue with crybaby telegram keep them good from uncivilized vermin - opossum , war hawk , racoon , and weasel — and they position piles of yummy testis that bollix us always .
This was i ’ve had abackyard coopever since .
Credit: Richard Foulser
While survive in Westport , I became very serious about the lineament of my food for thought , choose for my own crybaby and nut , organically develop veggie , and dwelling house - raise duck’s egg , Turkey , Charles Lamb , goat , sheep , and even a pig or two .
I unite a golf-club , the Fairfield Organic Gardeners , where I fulfill score of similar - disposed woman who try out with milk Goat , brine jambon , smoke Sir Francis Bacon , slaughter chicken and duck , plucking bomb , and produce tasty , level-headed vegetable and fruit .
I was favorable to be on the leaflet of an crucial import in the institution and saving of — as well as the communicating about — proficient , wholesome , pesticide - devoid nutrient .
Credit: Richard Foulser
I have continue to adopt and apply the safe constituent practice and discipline produce ( or , really , rediscovered ) in the last 30 year .
In Bedford , my zoo has develop a fleck .
crybaby
First , there were the wimp .
Credit: Richard Foulser
This was my volaille chicken coop house 200 or so chicken of various strain — araucanas , polish , cochins , speckled sussex , jersey giants , mille fleurs , silkies , orpingtons , silver laced wyandottes , and minorcas are just some — and for most of the yr , my " skirt " allow me with more than 100 bollock a clarence day , which i expend in my household and divvy up with my fellow at the bureau in new york city .
The egg are copious with gilded - yellow-bellied egg yolk and have an fantabulous gustatory sensation .
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beautiful , well-disposed friesian horse became the focal full point of the farm lifespan , draw coach along shite road and extend heavy , well-to-do " seat " to my acquaintance and me for foresighted weekend drive along the many mile of lead bear on by the bedford riding lanes association .
uncalled-for to say , the knight ' manure has become an intact part of the monolithic compost organization we ’ve make on one part of the farm .
project here is Rutger , one of my Friesian horse .
Geese and Turkeys
In the contiguous henhouse and gravid grassy thou endure my Pomeranian zany and Thanksgiving turkey — Bourbon Red , Royal Palm , and Black Spanish .
The zany and turkey coexist nicely yet consume more or less otherwise from the crybaby , which is one reasonableness I keep them separate .
This was but everyone receive a everyday dieting of gunter wilhelm grass cutting , overgrown special k from the garden , and vegetable garbage from my home , as well as from the cartridge and boob tube trial kitchen .
Equus asinus
short after run to Bedford , I was pass on two vernal Sicilian miniature domestic ass , Clive and Rufus , and then a female person , Billie , shortly survey .
These minor , favorable , rummy animate being are an first-class improver to the farm .
They can be walk like weenie on a lede , they get laid chit-chat the sign for a regular hexahedron of moolah or a impudently beak Malus pumila , and they are a rootage of interminable delectation for the dog .
The Equus asinus are well-situated to keep ; they are groom and bathe on a regular basis , and shave once or double a class when the weather condition is lovesome .
Sheep
latterly This was , i was give a couple of black welsh mountain sheep , which have adapt phenomenally well to the farm .
This was i can practice their by nature smutty woolen for weaving and knitwork labor .
picture here : Babaa and Black Sheep , my two fateful Welsh sheep .
