Garden

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We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month….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
Building play areas!

So in order to get anything done with Mr Whirlwind around he has to have things to occupy him!!! So gradually using and repurposing things around the farm and planting and making etc I am building a play area…. or lots of bits of play area Inadvertently with some of the digger work that has…

Ellie

June 7, 2018

baby, Children, Forest schools, Garden, Life with a toddler, Working the land

baby, building, forest school, garden, gardening, outdoor play, repurpose, reuse, toddler, toys, upcycle
All around the holding….

So….. deep breath and here goes….. Back at the end of April…. the Polytunnel finally had its skin put on!! We almost immediately started planting and moving some of the seed across that we had started in the house off into the tunnel…. Spring finally arrived after the seemingly relentless winter!! The small boy found…

Ellie

May 27, 2018

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

building, building work, digging, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, slurry pit, trees, vegetables, views, weed wars, weeds, willow
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
Farm update

Soooo in lieu of a podcast which I may not have time to do or enough content for, for a few weeks…. here is the farm update for recent weeks!!! Sooo…. back at the end of March on his due date we became a family of four when baby Mathew put in an appearance!! All…

Ellie

April 24, 2018

baby, Day tripping, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Wanderings, Working the land

baby, fruit, gardening, plants, Polytunnel, self sufficiency, sheep, simple living, slurry pit, sustainable, toddler, vegetables, visitors
Mini digger hired!! Check!!

So James decided to hire a mini digger this week…. and has been out in it all day every day working hard to create better waterways, raised beds, scrape the barns, flatten play areas…. etc etc!! Busy times!! Someone else rather liked the digger too!!! And very quickly figured out whilst sat on Daddy’s lap…

Ellie

March 16, 2018

Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Wanderings, Working the land

barn, building, building work, clearing, Drainage, flooding, gardening, path, slurry pit, smallholding, stream, veg garden, water, Yard
Episode 12 show notes finally!!

Episode 12Sunday 4th March Another one a week later than planned, but due to visitations…. First from my sister and the children and then from my parents!! So limited crafting time was had in the first couple of weeks! Knitting Managed a few more rounds on my Weasley sweater Swatching for some new patterns, these…

Ellie

March 13, 2018

Fruit and vegetables, Garden, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Working the land, yarn

acquisitions, building, crafting, crochet, farm, fruit, knitting, Podcast, Sewing, smallholding, smallholdingl life, Spinning, vegetables
Busy weeks!!

So the past two weeks have been filled with visitors and LOTS of outside work….. not much time for crafting except in between visitors and knitting of an evening!! We started with a few days with my sister and niece and nephew!! Someone was very pleased with his visitors!! And we had wall building round…

Ellie

February 25, 2018

Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

fruit, fruit cage, garden, hedgerows, hedges, market gardening, path, plants, self sufficiency, slurry pit, smallholding, wood, woodwork