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Sharing practical information from our Irish smallholding as we learn to live sustainably. Our adventures include rearing pigs for the table, keeping dairy goats, poultry, and growing all our own vegetables and heating fuel. We also have a bookshop full o

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  • How to Make Pickled Eggs

    Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 02:16 in food, food and drink, poultry

    Trust me, pickled eggs are delicious, no really they are. I think this is mainly an English tradition as I've never experienced them in Ireland. My first rendezvous with a pickled egg was after a long hike in the English countryside which ended a...

  • Broody Hen At Work

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 08:05 in poultry

    It's very handy having a broody hen, she will sit on and try to hatch anything spherical. She'd even sit on golf balls, apples, anything vaguely round in shape! This little hen sat on nine fat Aylesbury duck eggs for us, laid by our own duck,...