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    Happy Apple Day!

    Blog 21st October 2011

    Mmm, as I type we have a Herman the German Apple Friendship Cake baking in the oven and what better day to enjoy it? Today, 21st October, is Apple Day,…

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    Join us on the Journey!

    Blog 6th October 2011

    Believing in community – doing it together… We’ve had lots of fun with friends this month; life is so much more enjoyable when you are journeying with companions. Here you…

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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…