Woodland
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Smallholding Sunday
A goal setting post for the smallholding this year
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The Firewood poem
I thought I would share a poem I found about firewood today! Given that we like lighting fires for cooking, sharing, making drinks etc in our forest school sessions! We are also completely wood fired at the smallholding here, a log fuelled Esse for cooking, heating and hot water when the solar thermal panels are…
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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…
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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…
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What a week!!
Well this week has been a whirlwind after our usual more sedate pace round here!! Monday we were at the hospital for another growth scan and clinic…. Not a great photo but he is a larger baby than his brother and running out of space!!! (7 weeks till due date!) Tuesday we caught up on…
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A first try!!
So a different sort of weaving has been happening here….. A hazel hurdle is in the making!!! We have decided to have a go to make some prettier panels to make the gaps into what was the old slurry pit and will be our fruit and vegetable garden, safe!! Hopefully child safe!!!! James and I…
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Collecting, processing and stacking
A big part of our new lives here this time of year is collecting processing and stacking wood for our Esse and logburner. The Esse allows us to cook, heat water and heat our home and the log burner tops us up on chilly nights and even sometimes allows us to cook tea on it…
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Fencing….. Fencing and more Fencing!!!
Last week our fencing started in a big way!!! We have been fortunate to get into Glastir which is government woodland and land management scheme, which allows us to manage the land in a way that is more geared to the local wildlife and promoting that!! Last Monday our top field looked like this…. …
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Episode three is up!
Episode three is up on YouTube Show notes…. Knitting: Finished the Daydreamer and the Deco mat, owl puff and owl hat…. started the socks…. Nearly a HO! Sewing: Curtains curtains and more curtains PJS done, baby’s tshirt done Cutting out…. Acquisitions: only the curtain poles!! Shop update: vintage snug hat Farm update: hedging, fencing, diggers,…