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    Harvest, Cider and Preserving

    Blog 25th September 2011

    It’s that time of year… We’ve sown & grown, watered & weeded and now it’s time for harvest. ‘That’s the best bit’, I hear you say, but here at Hen…

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    Bee Happy!

    Blog 10th September 2011

    Subscribers who have been following our journey will remember Plan Bee from last year… Well we have now completed all four phases and have had the garden here at Hen…

  • Black and Yellow have been key colours that have repeated themselves over and over again this week… First, as promised, here is our ‘Chick Update’: Butternut (yellow) has been the…

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    Alive and Kicking!

    Blog 12th August 2011

    Let us introduce you to the First Four! As regular readers and subscribers know, we decided to try hatching some fertile eggs under Broody Butternut. We are on day 19…

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    A Time for Everything

    Blog 23rd July 2011

    There is a time for everything… This was the theme for my son’s ‘School Leavers Assembly’ this week; based on the passage in Ecclesiastes of the same name. As we…

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    The Ease of Cheese

    Blog 10th July 2011

    Oh My Goodness… I thought to myself whilst eating supper in the garden this evening. I had spent a couple of hours in the Kitchen Garden; transplanting the brassicas to…

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    Since you've been gone…

    Blog 9th June 2011

    Sorry we haven’t posted for a while… The reason is that we’ve had some very good friends from Australia come to stay with us here at Hen Corner. Richard &…

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    Life is Sweet

    Blog 4th May 2011

    Come and see for yourself… It was a delight to host another Chicken Keeping Course this week, Lisa (pictured with Sara) and Anne are friends who are thinking about hen…

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    Lambs and Eggs for Easter

    Blog 23rd April 2011

    Meet Thoral… He is one of the most wonderful men that you could ever meet. He is an old family friend who has spent the last 40-50 years farming 40…

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    A Year at Hen Corner

    Blog 16th April 2011

    What a year we’ve had…. This time last year, April ’10, we spent weeks lugging bricks around to pave the Kitchen Garden paths. It was a job worth doing but…