This month we've also been making and tasting lots of home made
and home grown produce.
Jackie has been busy making a green tomato chutney which is now
maturing and should be ready around the end of the year.
Thanks to Dale and Karen we are now in the process of making our
own wine from a bumper crop of red grapes. It's our first time in making wine and have consulted many books and our family
wine guru Ray. We're planning to make some more wine which we hope might be ready for Christmas.
Our first lot of pigs went for pork, but we have been keen to try
bacon from our own pigs. With a recipe from Shane we have had our first attempt at home cured bacon. We used a dry cure mix
on some belly pork and after a week of tender loving care we were able to have a fantastic breakfast last Saturday of home
made streaky bacon and fresh eggs...........Blooming tasty.......
We've been having quite a bit of pork over the recent months so
to vary the diet we decided it was time our two surplus Cockerels got the chop. Julian did the ringing of the neck business
and Jackie, with the help of Annette and Joy, did the gory job of preparing them for the oven. The cockerels had been fed
on corn and grass and were very very tasty. We're planning on breeding some more table birds, so if you fancy a fresh
chicken let me know.
Jobs for next month include extening the pig run as we've got
quite a bit of land which is overgrown with weeds. The idea is that we let the pigs eat the weeds, dig up the land, which
they do very well, and in the process manure it too ready for planting in the spring.
We've also got a greenhouse to move from Jackie's Dad's house, and
Julian is planning to go shooting for rabbits........(no elmer fudd jokes please)
