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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: About Me
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . I'm a farmhand and a rambler. A lover of all things old. I hail from Ontario, and often find myself in Nova Scotia. I make things and think about. I publish a little magazine:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I also make the Driftwood Quarterly. Green Being Farm - CSA, Pastured Meats and Nutrient Dense Vegetables. Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds (Canada) Heirloom and rare varieties, certified organic, farm grown. Potato Salad Radio Show.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: About Briars Close
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Briars Close is a blog because I am too eager. I want to share Everything. Where did the name come from? It makes me think of an english country road that dead ends at a little cottage overgrown with vines of all kinds, roses, morning glories, sweet peas. (B. McLeod). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I also make the Driftwood Quarterly. Green Being Farm - CSA, Pastured Meats and Nutrient Dense Vegetables. Potato Salad Radio Show.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: Portrait of an artist as a young farmer
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Sunday, November 20, 2011. Portrait of an artist as a young farmer. I'm beginning my artist's apprenticeship, working under Wesley Bates, a wood engraver, painter and private press in Clifford- a short drive from my farm and a shorter drive to Caitlin's where I was this past season. I also need to find a way to bring good art up here. I suppose it will start with bringing good artists up to my farm, and seeing what happens. Posted by Glynis Cordelia King. Art and bellies full.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: May 2011
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Monday, May 23, 2011. The Weather Says Change. It is one thing to hear the murmuring clucks of chickens peck around you, startle at the peacock's cry or marvel at the large awkwardness of a llama. But it is so different to actually know an animal, throw down the pigs feed alone in the barn or have that same llama and that same lone sheep break into a galloping run to follow alongside your tractor in their open pasture on a sunny day. Posted by Glynis Cordelia King.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: September 2011
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Friday, September 30, 2011. The ties that bind, they are barbed and spined, and hold us close forever. I often mean to write about farming itself. sentences trickle into my minds eye in the morning when thoughts are fresh and clear, and by the evening I am worn and can barely remember what I did, which is why I try to write them down in some semblance because by tomorrow they may be gone. Surely I'll be a carpenter or something. I ain't no farmer. And as for farming itself.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: FARMING
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Monday, October 31, 2011. Whenever I get overwhelmed or get cold feet, I try to think what else I would do. There is nothing. All I know how to do is farm. I think that's all I ever knew how to do I just didn't have the farm to farm on, so how could I have known. Oh I'm also writing a book on homesteading this winter, designing it, printing it and binding it. as well as two more issues of the Driftwood Quarterly. Life is busy. Posted by Glynis Cordelia King.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: Wealthy and Broke
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Thursday, October 20, 2011. A skunk got into the barn. We trapped it and Jill and I took it to the creek in her hitch and with a rope tied to the cage and lowered it into the water. Sean has also been saving skins. So looking at this beautiful animal, of course I thought to skin it. I don't know much about it, but if they could do it, why not I. And I'd have to start somewhere. And if I didn't it would go to waste anyway. So I had to try. It dawned on me the other day that I...
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: Aldergrove Farm
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Aldergrove Farm. That's my farm. My family and I bought our farm. 75 acres in Grey County, just outside Mount Forest in Ontario. A two-hour drive from Toronto. Rolling hills, a maple grove and two forested areas with a creek running through. Roughly 45 acres of pasture rolling in and out between the woods. I got on the 30-hour train. and the credits must have rolled. I'm now waiting for the next movie to begin. Posted by Glynis Cordelia King.
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. . . B R I A R S . C L O S E . . .: October 2011
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B R I A R S . C L O S E . . . Monday, October 31, 2011. Whenever I get overwhelmed or get cold feet, I try to think what else I would do. There is nothing. All I know how to do is farm. I think that's all I ever knew how to do I just didn't have the farm to farm on, so how could I have known. Oh I'm also writing a book on homesteading this winter, designing it, printing it and binding it. as well as two more issues of the Driftwood Quarterly. Life is busy. Posted by Glynis Cordelia King. Last night we fe...