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Our first pigs

What a week! In only a few days we’ve gone from keeping just three chickens to three chickens, five pigs and two ducklings. If you’ve been following along with our Twitter account (@limesendcottage) then you’ll have an idea how busy things have been, but now that we’

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Pig fencing (part II)

At the end of last week’s post I wasn’t quite sure whether the last few things I needed to finish the electric fencing for the pigs would arrive. Well, thanks to some efficient shipping from Electric Fence Online I’m pleased to say that everything arrived in good

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Pig fencing (part I)

Continuing the theme of fencing from our last post, over the weekend I managed to find some time to make a start on the semi-permanent electric fencing ready for our pigs. Our plan is that we'll use the fence to stop the pigs from roaming across all four-and-a-bit acres of

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New fencing

Yesterday saw us take another step towards keeping our first four-legged livestock as a couple of fencing contractors spent a sunny (but chilly) afternoon erecting around 80 meters of stock fencing across the bottom of our field. You can see the (mostly) finished result below). As far as we know

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Next year

Another week goes by and the big list of autumn jobs (see last week’s post) keeps rolling on. Now that we’re into November and the warm days seem to finally be coming to an end it’s time to start clearing out the polytunnel and greenhouses, pot-on the