Animal Farm: New Year, New Resolve
- lauramparry
- Jan 9
- 2 min read
It has been a depressingly long time since my last post and creation of this site; so much has happened and 24 hours in a 7 day week is definitely insufficient time to get even a fraction of the things done that I'd hoped. But here is to a new calendar year and - I hope - some attention to this blog.
We created beds and planted some veg - potatoes, aubergines and broccoli. The potatoes fared very well, the broccoli less so - the aubergine: well, let's forget that. The apple trees delivered their bounty in the Autumn and we harvested pretty much all of them. I can't say I have used them all, but they have provided a welcome and occasional treat to the horses.
Horses? Well yes. So along with paltry vegetable growing efforts I have finally realised my dream and have two horses. One is owned, the other on loan as an unridden companion. I'm sure I'll write more on this in future blogs, but suffice to say this has perhaps been the biggest change and drainer of time.
And not to forget the flock of chickens who are producing between 6 and 10 eggs per day (how 8 chickens can produce 10 eggs in one day - particularly through the winter, and with no additional lighting - is anyone's guess...but the chickens do queue up to lay so perhaps the collection time also has an impact on how many eggs are waiting to be collected).
See this doesn't need to be a long post. Let's add some images and then hopefully we're at least partially up to speed.
Just incidentally, you might be wondering about the title of this post; well, I was listening to the wonderful BBC Scotland Outdoors podcast BBC Radio Scotland - Scotland Outdoors, Life on the Island of Jura which mentioned the new book by Les Wilson entitled Orwell's Island: George, Jura and 1984 (which of course I then purchased and am now reading). So the title seemed appropriate. But yes, with a mere 8 chickens and 2 horses we're not quite a full scale animal farm - yet, anyway!
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