thinking, doing, being a farmer's wife....

I've been finding it difficult to try to post something with so much other 'stuff' on my mind.....

Like worry for the folk in Japan - as if it's not enough to contend with earthquake and tsunami and after-shocks ... everything about the unfolding 'drama' at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is just gob-smackingly dreadful.....


dreadful

(now is not the time to go into the pros and cons and blips and blops of nuclear anything - but I will say - I've long been a NO NUKES girlie.... enough said)

Like many of you, my thoughts are with everyone in Japan.... may your country and people heal quickly.

My thoughts are also on a HUGE project closer to home....

Over the past few months a large structure has emerged on my partner's farm.... (some of my bloggy friends from have been following the progress of the project over here) - but here's a brief pictorial for everyone else....

yes - you guessed right - it's a damn big dairy

 this is my farming man
checking out the pit in his brand spanking new 20-a-side, swing-over herringbone dairy
(no I don't feel confident rattling that off... I hope I got it right)

 I have spent so many sleepless nights over the past couple of years thinking and worrying about this project (but worry is not very productive eh?)..... So when the project started back in October last year - I headed off to complete my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) - and this way I imagined I might have a positive and practical way of being involved.... whilst also remaining absolutely true to my beliefs in a greener, more sustainable, holistic way of undertaking farm/life.... (it remains to be seen how things will go.... and how I'll cope with the early mornings... I don't have much longer to wait until I find out - FP expects to be milking the new girls in just over a weeks time..... GULP!)


Last weekend I set up a small book piece in the pristine dairy pit...

(no one every said being a farmer's wife would be easy..... but my man also says - it's not so easy being partner to an artist either... especially when I have the tendency to do things like this!)


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