Working the land
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The beacons are lit!!!
We piled up the excess bits from the tree tidying we did behind the bank….. Well we have been piling for weeks…. Finally this weekend the weather was right…. A couple of hours dry in the morning and rain moving in to out the fires when needed… So a couple of hours before the rain…
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Starting to look like we are winning
Over the weekend we were back at the farm and I went hell for leather with the hedge cutters (although I am paying for it now with a poorly bad hand and wrist) The orchard field is basically now cleared other than some brambles which Mum is coming to help pick clean next weekend!! I…
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The slurry pit!
Whilst the borehole was being dug, the owner of the company brought up his mini digger to do some trenching for the pipework….. He decided to take the mini digger into the slurry pit to see what state the bog of eternal stench end was in…… BAD news …. It is much deeper than we…
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Weed wars!
During our fortnight at the farm weed wars continued!!! Having gotten a handle on the nettles with cutting and spraying and the brambles too…. I moved onto GIANT HOGWEED!!!!! A vile plant that grows enormously and seeds and attracts flies and horseflies!!!!!! And it is also colonising our orchard field….. Sooo me a set of…
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Wood pile!
James has been working ever so hard at the small holding wood pile!! We have both been chainsawing up branches and small trees that needed to be tidied up and he has then been collecting the logs in Ally and then splitting them with an axe or his chainsaw!! By the end of a couple…
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Our new arrival
The day before the wedding!!!! Yes the day before the wedding I.e. The day we were heading to the venue to set up and settle in!!!!!! James headed to the farm to take delivery of his new toy!!!! Meet Ally the gator!!!
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We’ve cleared another path…..
Well sort of!!! We have cleared the weed mountain in the pathway and moved out the hideously bent and destroyed gate and the one that was just propped up for good measure!!! This path when levelled and properly excavated will lead from the yard to orchard field, as it will be!!!! Eventually we hope this…
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Another weekend of working
We managed to get a fair bit done last weekend despite me taking a pile of work to play with!! James chainsawed up his remaining trees!!!! We waged war on more orchard brambles and nettles and have ended up with a lot more clear space!!! It’s actually going to be a fairly large area!! Phew…
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Finally the corner of the bank is found!!
As well as more slurry pit clearing and tree felling, bench building, BBQing, tent building, and child wrangling we found time to clear the fence and the nettles and brambles from the bank of the slurry pit closest to the tin hut. We took down the wire and post fence and got stuck in with…
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Weekend workings in the pit!!
Whilst my parents stayed we worked hard at clearing more of the slurry pit and Dad started to build a retaining wall for the veg patch that the slurry pit is destined to become, using some of the tyres from the barns!! We have managed to reduce the size of the rubble heap at the…