Tyddyn Bryn

Food and drink

• 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

• Planting planting and more planting

  So now the Polytunnel has been skinned we have been able to get in and plant!! So far now we have planted mangetout, beans, beetroot, carrots, spinach, leeks, rocket, spring onions and salads…. Then James has moved our two new grapevines into the corners, one red one white… He has also moved all the baby…

  Ellie

  April 30, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Working the land

  fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, plants, rocks, self sufficiency, slurry pit, vegetables, weed wars

• A busy few days baking and making!!

  We’ve been in the throes of Christmas baking here getting cake baked and frozen for when we have visitors, making pastry and now mince pies and so the wild birds don’t feel forgotten we have made them some seed decorations for a tree near the patio doors so we can watch them from the lounge!…

  Ellie

  December 7, 2017

  baby, Food and drink, Life with a toddler

  baby, baking, bird seed, bird seed decorations, cake, cakes, cooking, kitchen, mince pies, toddler cooking, visitors

• Chocolate Caramel Crackers!

  Today I made some chocolate caramel crackers which I haven’t made in an age!! It’s my gorgeous cousin’s recipe and tastes like dime bar biscuits!!  So…. Ingredients: Salted crackers : saltines, matzos or Doriano Italian Crackers (I use the Doriano) 8oz unsalted butter 8 oz light brown soft sugar 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla essence…

  Ellie

  November 17, 2017

  Food and drink

  caramel, chocolate, chocolate caramel crackers, recipe

• Elderflowers

       We have two types of elderflower on the holding, pink and white…… Last weekend I picked a load of both…..  Now we have EIGHT gallons of wine bubbling away!!!! Hurrah!!!

  Ellie

  July 10, 2015

  Food and drink

  elderflower wine, elderflowers