Tyddyn Bryn

Ellie

• What we do Wednesday!

  How to process firewood!! Well how we collect and process it!! 😂 You can find a short video here of what we do!!! Someone LOVES the chainsaw helmet!!! Especially the visor!!! 😂 And whilst the chain saw was out!! Himself chopped me up some logs to make a log circle in the littlie’s forest school…

  Ellie

  January 9, 2019

  Children, Firewood, Forest schools, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

  forestschool, Podcast, self sufficiency, smallholding, wood, Woodland, woodwork

• Something New Sunday

  So part of the new schedule over on our YouTube channel is Something New Sunday!! Look what I found!!!! The episode is Here

  Ellie

  January 8, 2019

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast

  Podcast, something new Sunday, vegetables

• The first Makers Monday!!

  So the crafting podcast is becoming weekly!! And on a Monday!! This will be a weekly round up of the crafting activities I get up to! This week’s round up can be found here

  Ellie

  January 7, 2019

  Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving, Woodwork, yarn

  crafting, crochet, knitting, Patterns, Podcast, ravelry, Sewing, socks, Spinning, Weaving, woodwork, yarn

• Summation Saturday

  The first Summation Saturday or Sunday vlog is up!! And it’s DOMINATED by the boys and the tin hut!!! Yikes!!! It’s all a bit real now!!!

  Ellie

  January 7, 2019

  Building work, The tin hut

  building work, demolishing, demolition, to n hut

• Goodbye 2018… hello 2019

  So I have made a couple of vlogs rounding up 2018 And a vlog about plans for 2019!!

  Ellie

  January 6, 2019

  Books, Building work, Craftiness, Fruit and vegetables, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, The tin hut

  building, building work, crafting, crochet, Etsy, forest school, forestschool, gardening, knitting, Podcast, self sufficiency, Sewing, smallholding, Spinning, tin hut, vegetables, Weaving

• A wander round the wool museum

  A little photo tour of the local (I love that it’s so close!!) Wool Museum!!

  Ellie

  July 30, 2018

  Day tripping, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Spinning, Weaving, yarn

  knitting, melin Teifi, Patterns, sheep, Spinning, Waterways, Weaving, wool, wool museum, yarn

• A few little videos

  I’ve added a few new videos to the YouTube Channel!!! Some tours of the animals and I’m planning a weekly ish….. vlog about the happenings on the smallholding!! Here is Episode one!!

  Ellie

  July 29, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Wanderings, Wildlife, Woodland, Working the land

  barns, Big Field, building work, clearing, digging, fencing, fields, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, Holding Field, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, Podcast, rocks, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, slurry pit, Small field, smallholding, stream, trees, vegetables, views, water, Waterways, weed wars, weeds, willow, wood, Woodland, woodlands

• Day tripping!!

  We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month…. well we missed a few, time got away from us, jobs came up, regular chores took over…. and oh yes we had a beautiful new baby!! So we have made up for it recently…

  Ellie

  June 10, 2018

  Day tripping, Garden, Wanderings, Wildlife

  bees, day trip, garden, gardening, orchard field, planting, plants, Rough Pasture, smallholding, trees, Wildlife, willow

• A few updates!!

  Things are starting to grow in the Polytunnel and the fruit cage has a heap of green strawberries!! James has built the majority of the first long raised beds!! Just awaiting delivery of the blocks for the rest of this bed and the second now!! But we could wait and started to plant!!! Beans this…

  Ellie

  June 9, 2018

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Livestock, Working the land

  bees, Big Field, fields, foals, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, hedgerows, hedges, hive, hives, Livestock, plants, ponies, self sufficiency, sheep, slurry pit, Small field, smallholding, vegetables

• Piggies!!!

  Last week we spent a huge amount of time building an enclosure and hut for some pigs!!! All the elements of their housing other than the electric fencing have been repurposed from things we had in the barns, leftovers from other building projects or reclaimed items like a collection of doors that a neighbour was…

  Ellie

  June 8, 2018

  Livestock, Working the land

  building, electric fence, fencing, Livestock, piglets, pigs, repurposing, reusing