Tyddyn Bryn

The tin hut

• Smallholding Sunday

  

  A goal setting post for the smallholding this year

  Ellie

  January 17, 2021

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Sustainability, The tin hut, Wanderings, Woodland, Working the land

  building work, goals, hedge cutters, hedge laying, hedge restoring, hedgerows, hedges, plans, smallholder, smallholders, smallholding, smallholding life, Woodland

• Smallholding update!

  

  Living the dream!!! So many people say this to us!! And it always makes me laugh a little, yes in so very many ways we are living the dream, but I really don’t think a lot of people realise how much hard work the dream is!! Take this week for example!! All the rain and…

  Ellie

  November 15, 2020

  animals, Building work, News, Plans, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  building, building work, clearing, fields, flooding, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Livestock, ponies, sheep, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, water, weeds, willow

• So plans for Tyddynbryn!!

  Social distancing smallholding style!! We have an absolute load of work to get on with here on the smallholding and with the nice dry weather that has started we have made a start!! Moving the chickens and ducks to new turf. Wood chipping paths and flower beds and around new raised beds! Having cleared the…

  Ellie

  March 22, 2020

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, journal, News, The tin hut, Working the land, yarn

  building, building work, crafting, digging, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, log pile, logs, path, plants, self sufficiency, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, weed wars, yarn

• Weekend waffle

  A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live here A bit of tree planting, the starts of a Japanese inspired garden, snow and a puppy!!

  Ellie

  February 2, 2019

  Building work, Garden, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, gardening, Japanese garden, orchard field, plants, rocks, rubble, smallholding, stream, tin hut, trees, Waterways, willow, Yard

• Weekend waffle

  So summation Saturday and Sunday wasn’t working for me as a title for the weekend chat/catch up vlogs…. it didn’t sit right…. So I was up feeding the smallest boy a few nights ago and a Title came to me for these vlogs!! Weekend waffle!!! Hurrah!!! Any way the next instalment is up on the…

  Ellie

  January 19, 2019

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, demolition, digger, Firewood, garden, gardening, logs, path, plants, Podcast, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, smallholding, tin hut, trees, willow

• 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

• Episode 10!

  Episode 10 of the podcast Sunday 21st January Knitting:  Finished James’ Vanilla socks Half finished some toddler socks for William, from my toddler sock pattern available on Rav, LoveKnitting and in the Etsy shop. Started knitting up a secret shawl pattern!!! Using RiverKnits Indian Giant Squirrel. First designed this shawl for my granny for James…

  Ellie

  January 21, 2018

  Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, The tin hut, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Weaving, Working the land

  Etsy, giveaway, knitting, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, spiining, test knitting, tin hut, vlog, Weaving

• The barn circa 1960!!

  So this was our old barn in an old aerial photo!!!! The big Agri barns aren’t there, neither is the tin hut but there are lots of smaller barns and the land behind the barns is so much flatter looking, without the slurry pit and the spoil heaps which have sculpted themselves into our garden…

  Ellie

  January 5, 2018

  Building work, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  barns, historical photos, history

• Some little farm tours for you!

  I’ve started to podcast and as a part of that I’ve recorded a couple of tours of the smallholding!! Part one  Part two Tin hut tour Enjoy!!

  Ellie

  February 15, 2017

  Podcast, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  smallholding, tin hut, tour, videos