Friday, February 26, 2010
Outof Ireland: Raising Freerange Broilers
SHARE The Ex Farmers Wife continues the story about her growing zoo and gives advice on how to rear broilers. Chickens, broilers and turkeys are fed on with antibiotics and growth promoters from day one. Organic farmers have to search high and low to find food without these goodies. Free range fowl doesn't get sick as easily as their confined to caged brethren.

       Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Pullets, Chicks and Broilers
SHARE The Ex Farmer's Wife gives advice on raising pullets. When do hens start to lay? What to feed them? How to house them?

       Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Out of Ireland (8): Nixers, Gurriers and Eejits
SHARE The Ex Farmer's Wife continues her description of her life in her newly adopted homeland and relates funny differences between the English she learned and used to teach and what was actually spoken. Idiosyncracies and idioms of Irish- English that an immigrant picks up every day and may be unknown this side of the pond.

       Thursday, December 31, 2009
Our River (Out of Ireland)
SHARE A peaceful little brook ran through our farm supplying us and the village with water, years ago.Yellow lilies grew in the adjacent filed, a sign of wetland.

       Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Out of Ireland: Right as Rain
SHARE Water shortages in Irland are not the norm.On the contrary, it's bound to rain somewhere everyday, even though the weatherman on TV can't quite pin it down as to where. In our first weeks, we experienced a severe draught that made me carry buckets of water upstairs to flush our toilet. And then there are floods....

       Sunday, November 22, 2009
Fully Loaded- with Pesticides
SHARE The Ex Farmer's Wife gives you a list of the ten most pesticide infested foods. To be used as a growing guideline -or merely as food for thought.

       Monday, November 16, 2009
The Humble Spud
SHARE Home-grown potatoes taste different: like when you were a child. They have so much more flavor than conventioannly grown ones. Here the Ex Famer's Wife tells you how to do it.

       Sunday, November 1, 2009
Allotments back in Fashion
SHARE Be it out of financial necessity or the genuine wish to know where your food comes from, how much ist has been sprayed and with what pesticides, people turn to growing their own. These old fashioned plots were -and are being called again- allotments.The most famous one is at th eWhite house.

       Thursday, September 3, 2009
Out of Ireland
SHARE Interested in the 'Good Life', organc farming, or at least growing your own? This Ex Farmer's wife shares her experience of daily life on a farm in the West of Ireland and advice of how to do it all.