Tyddyn Bryn

Working the land

• Smallholding Sunday

  

  A photo round up of our jobs and fun here on the smallholding this summer! Baling hay, fruit and veg, building and fun.

  Ellie

  September 5, 2021

  Children, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, fruit, fruit cage, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Orchard, orchard field, plants, self sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, trees, vegetables, weeds

• Sheepy Sunday, Wanda’s Story

  

  Once a month I am going to tell you the story of our sheep and how we came to acquire them! First up is our first sheep on the smallholding, Wanda. She is a Beulah Speckled Face sheep, which you can see more in later photographs. Wanda turned up in the lane and on our…

  Ellie

  January 31, 2021

  Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Working the land, yarn

  from sheep to yarn, Livestock, sheep, Wanda, yarn, yarn producers

• 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

• 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…

  Ellie

  September 1, 2020

  Firewood, Woodland, Working the land

  fire, fires, log pile, logs, poetry, self sufficiency, sustainable, wood, Woodland, woodlands, woods

• Ever wondered about our yarns??

  I’ve been fiddling about putting together a little about the yarn video!! What do you all think!?! You can find our yarns over on Etsy They truly are a joy to work with!!! Watch this space for some new patterns releases coming soon!!!

  Ellie

  July 8, 2020

  Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Livestock, Patterns, Sustainability, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Working the land, yarn

  crochet, Etsy, indie designer, indie dyer, knitting, Patterns, self sufficiency, sheep, support small business, yarn

• What’s doing??

  We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…

  Ellie

  June 3, 2020

  animals, Building work, Food and drink, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, building work, cordial, digging, elderflower, fields, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, horses, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, ponies, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, Small field, smallholding, vegetables, water, weed wars, weeds, wine, Yard

• All go round here!!

  So over the past few days we have been working hard to get things sorted, built, planted, weeded and moved!! We have weeded both large raised beds, and I have started to plant seeds for veg in there, using my scaffolding plank as a bridge across to stop me from stomping all over the bed!…

  Ellie

  March 26, 2020

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Uncategorized, Working the land

  digging, garden, gardening, muck, muck spreading, plants, self sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables

• 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 on the YouTube channel A withybed built and you can see what we have be up to in the Polytunnel!! It’s all rather exciting!! 😁

  Ellie

  February 10, 2019

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  building work, fruit, garden, gardening, hedges, plants, Podcast, smallholding, vegetables, views, willow, Woodland, woodlands, woodwork