Sometimes life on the farm can be difficult enough but when faced with ongoing health-related issues, it becomes all the more challenging. Depending on the season of the year, sometimes ongoing issues can cause a major disruption in your ability to get out and about with chores that need doing. And so it is with…
As a parent, you need to make sure you’re covering a lot of areas in your quest to raise the healthiest and happiest child possible. Their physical, mental, and social health are all of vital importance, so you need to be switched on an awful lot of the time. While each aspect of life is…
If you have little ones, you know that keeping them active can be difficult at times. This was shown recently when the number of overweight children had risen by a fifth. However, on the flip side to this, you may have a child with too much energy that needs to be focused somewhere. The obvious…
Living on a farm is hard work. Getting up at the crack of dawn and back-breaking labour. Add to that sleep issues and you have a recipe for disaster. We all need sleep to function properly but most of us don’t get enough. As a result, we become grumpy and foggy. This is not all!…
It is a well-known fact that smoking while you are pregnant is unhealthy. Smoking can put your baby at risk before he or she is even born; it can stunt fetal growth in the uterus and restrict oxygen to the placenta, increasing your chance of a miscarriage. You may think that once you find out…
It’s Sunday morning. Millions of people are sitting in their beds reading the Sunday newspapers and drinking coffee. Okay, maybe not parents. They’re sitting on sofas, watching their 316th episode of Paw Patrol already, wishing coffee came in an introveinus drip. Well, however you are enjoying your morning brew, a culinary craze is taking off…
I know you’ll all probably hate me for this post. Half term isn’t even here yet but I’m asking you to check your diaries for June 8th. You see it is a subject pretty close to my heart. June 8th is Open Farm Sunday. It is a day where ordinary people who may have never…