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Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry 3 & 4 For August 2008

sara | August 15, 2008

TopVeg have sent two pictures for the Farming Friends Foto of the Month Competition, so thanks TopVeg.
I saw these onions, just hanging in an open shed belonging to a 92 year old veg gardener.  I like the shiny, new fresh onions hanging on old strings against very old wooden walls, on top of his collection of old [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry 2 For August 2008

sara | August 12, 2008

Jane from Urban Extension, has sent a picture of a a ringlet butterfly for the Farming Friends Foto of the Month Competition, so thanks Jane.
This is a picture I took on a friend of mine’s smallholding in Verwood, Dorset of a small Ringlet Butterfly on a Bramble Flower. I love the way it’s proboscis is curled up and it’s wings [...]

December’s Photograph Of The Month Competition Winner

sara | January 13, 2008

The winner of the Farming Friends “Foto” of the Month Competition for December is Jane, so well done Jane a gift will be on it’s way to you very soon.
Winter Fungi
Jane from Urban Extension took this photograph of some gorgeous fungi taken in December 2007 in a local wood in Corfe Mullen, Dorset. Jane said, “I just loved the [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition -2008’s Second Entry

sara | January 12, 2008

Marian has sent me the second entry for the Farming Friends Photograph Of the Month Competition for 2008, so thanks Marian.
Marian saw these Lambs earlier in the week. Marian said,  “I don’t know when they were born,  but they look to be growing up very fast, just look at the size of them!.  I don’t know what was in [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – Entry Number 1 Of 2008

sara | January 6, 2008

TopVeg have sent me the first entry for the Farming Friends Photograph Of the Month Competition for 2008, so thanks TopVeg.
TopVeg grow a wide variety of unusual vegetables and this Chinese Mantanghon Winter Radish looks a real unusual beauty.
If you like taking photographs then why not enter our Farming Friends ‘Foto’ Of The Month Competition.
The [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – A Piggy Entry

sara | December 22, 2007

The piggy photograph I received via email for my December photograph of the month competition really made me laugh – what a great entry from Rebecca @ Irish Sally Garden.
Full Irish Breakfast These are Rebecca’s two gloucestershire old spot pigs. They are 5 months old and very heavy! Rebecca knows that because one of them stood on her [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition -Entry 1 For December

sara | December 19, 2007

The first entry for this months photograph competition arrived in my email box this week and I am thrilled with the photograph. Jane from Urban Extension has sent the photograph, so thanks Jane.
Winter Fungi
Here is Jane’s Photo of the Month offering for December. It is of some gorgeous fungi taken a couple of weeks ago [...]

October’s Caption Competition

admin | October 19, 2007

Can you think of a caption for this month’s caption competition?
Elizabeth’s caption is, “Oops I did it again!”
Virginia’s caption is, “Bring back the horses.”
N.N.Neary’s caption is, “A classic case of NSPCCH.”
Check out previous farmingfriends foto caption competitions.

Photograph Caption Competition Winners

admin | October 19, 2007

‘Hmmmmm, that don’t taste like grass!’The winning caption for March was sent in by Chewy, a very apt name to accompany this photograph! So well done Chewy, who is now the proud owner of this photograph.
 
Branching out is supposed to be a good thing but now I’m not so sure!The winning caption for April was [...]

Photograph Of The Month Competition – An Entry From USA

admin | October 19, 2007

Another entry has arrived for the farmingfriends ‘foto’ of the month competition and this time the photograph has come all the way from Northeastern USA. Thanks T Bird.
This photograph was taken by Temmy and is a picture of 2 of the 4 goat kids trying to be king of the rock. They are twins.  This was taken when [...]