Le Moulin de Favières

These two little monkeys or should I say pigs are due to produce for us (well the sow is anyway) in may. They are really funny and are excellent rotavators have just got to work out how I can move them around the land without having to keep fencing everything in.

Gizmo has to be the smallest goat we have ever seen, left by her mum we took her in and bottle fed her and it was very much touch and go. Trouble is she is so small we cannot put her outside without being with her so she is living the life of luxury at the moment.
Her favourite trick is to climb up the stairs and then jump off and then run off dancing…

Being as we decided enough was enough at Christmas and that not only were we going to stop working and put everything in to restoring the mill and building a house for my mother, we also decided we would aim to become completely self sufficient this year. Which explains our recent acquisitions, starting with 9 dorset x sheep, the ram is to follow next week, we already have two tamworth pigs and hope the sow will produce as planned in may, and tomorrow we are going to collect an old gloucester spot who is due to produce in march - all we are waiting for are some cows - 1 for milking and 2 for there meat. We already have lots of poultry and the incubator should be going on tonight ready to start on a batch of chicken eggs. Anyway am going to post some pictures on here of the animals…

The sheep having their breakfast…..

These machines are milling machines and were installed in 1936.

Well there are many reasons for us creating this blog, firstly,  because we are proud of our moulin (being one of only two of its kind in France but we’ll move on to that later) so therefore we want to share and promote our moulin with you but perhaps the main one at the moment is that we bought this moulin 5 years ago, we took a huge ‘gamble’ as when we came to france we did not want a mortgage anymore but once we saw the moulin that went out of the window - now after 5 years and a struggle having not got very far we are hoping that maybe some of you will be interested in the history and in some way be able to help towards getting this moulin open to the public.  Let us tell you more about the moulin first …….