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About Us
- Ken & Margaret Cook
- Dutton, Ontario, Canada
- Margaret and Ken Cook live in rural Elgin County on a small two acre farm. We keep Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Barred Rock chickens for eggs and entertainment. We also have many gardens for vegetables and many fruit trees. We will be adding quails, Chantecler's, pheasants, a couple of pigs, some sheep and a goat for grass control, expanding the gardens and putting in more fruit trees. Margaret & Ken are living as close to 1865 as we possibly can in our modern world. In doing this we learn how better to be sustainable and what life was truly like during the Victorian era here in Upper Canada. We hope to encourage others to live perhaps at least some of the time in the quiet gentle world without artificial sound and light. And enjoy the peace of self entertainment and reliance...so please join us in our travels as we work to best emulate this time period and learn what has been so forgotten in our modern world. Ask us questions and visit us when you are able...
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Well spring cleaning has arrived at our house , one room at a time. Having done much research into this area I am inclined to imagine that ...
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Planting isn't the only thing happening. An extension for the green house is taking shape, 8' X 15' in size. This makes the gre...
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We are having a relaxing day and discussing the "Living Victorian" fair we are planning for next July. Suggestions welcome . We a...
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Kidney....According to Mrs Beeton veal kidney is much more tender and much more preferred than cow. All of her many recipes for this organ ...
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Greetings everyone .. We took a drive to Cambridge yesterday to have our official Christmas/New Years visit with Ken's sister Sarah and...
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Greetings one and all, Margaret and Ken here once again after a very long time. As you probably figured out we have been very busy with our...
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Greetings all, Ken here. Margaret is not the only to spend a lot of time in the gardens. I have been making garden fences all day. What'...
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Just a report on the sausages. I brought them to Guelph for the family to taste test and they are nummy...they are drier than store bought ...
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We have a freezer.... Now i am sure you are wondering how we have a freezer while we are living as close to the year 1865 as possible an...
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We have spent the morning making sausage . Pork legs were on sale so we took advantage of the opportunity. These sausages are flavored...
Popular Posts
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Well spring cleaning has arrived at our house , one room at a time. Having done much research into this area I am inclined to imagine that ...
-
Planting isn't the only thing happening. An extension for the green house is taking shape, 8' X 15' in size. This makes the gre...
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We are having a relaxing day and discussing the "Living Victorian" fair we are planning for next July. Suggestions welcome . We a...
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Kidney....According to Mrs Beeton veal kidney is much more tender and much more preferred than cow. All of her many recipes for this organ ...
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Greetings everyone .. We took a drive to Cambridge yesterday to have our official Christmas/New Years visit with Ken's sister Sarah and...
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Greetings one and all, Margaret and Ken here once again after a very long time. As you probably figured out we have been very busy with our...
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Greetings all, Ken here. Margaret is not the only to spend a lot of time in the gardens. I have been making garden fences all day. What'...
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Just a report on the sausages. I brought them to Guelph for the family to taste test and they are nummy...they are drier than store bought ...
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We have a freezer.... Now i am sure you are wondering how we have a freezer while we are living as close to the year 1865 as possible an...
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We have spent the morning making sausage . Pork legs were on sale so we took advantage of the opportunity. These sausages are flavored...
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