Welcome to An English Rose In France

Welcome to An English Rose in France, the diary of my life in France since 2005.

15/07/2012 edit, over 720 posts on this blog now, hope you enjoy them, and please feel free to comment.

Turkey

I eat meat and I understand that in order for me to eat meat an animal has to die, but it still upsets me, but I would rather have an animal live here, free range, well fed then die here than buy meat from a shop where I know the animal gets the minimum quality of life and its death has more to do with profit than food quality.

I8n an ideal world I would love to be able to produce all my food needs here at Half Acre, we are trying to do a little more each year and I'm educating myself  about home steading and self sufficiency, while I know we will never reach the goal completely we try to get a little closer each year. 

New baby chickens

There's about 10 of them, I saw them this morning on the drive, the chickens have been hiding there eggs lately, but as we don't have a full size Coq these baby's are all likely to be Bantams, still edible when fully grown they are unlikely to survive, with the local cats the weather and natural selection actually having anything to go onto the table later is unlikely, so Paul is going block off the pig arc, and if we can catch the baby's and mother we will put them in it.