Tyddyn Bryn

Working the land

• 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

• What we do Wednesday: making Sausages

  Up on the channel as of last Wednesday a vlog on How we made sausages at home from our first home raised and butchered pigs!! Here is the link!!

  Ellie

  January 19, 2019

  animals, Food and drink, Livestock, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  how to, pigs, Podcast, sausages

• Summation Sunday

  Another vlog summing up this week!! A busy one again, Log chopping, Fencing, Building some Forest school/outdoor learning bits Aaaaannnnnnd Puppy!!!!

  Ellie

  January 14, 2019

  animals, Firewood, Forest schools, Working the land

  fencing, fields, forest school, forestschool, gates, Holding Field, log pile, orchard field, Podcast, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, smallholding, wood

• 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…

  Ellie

  January 9, 2019

  Children, Firewood, Forest schools, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

  forestschool, Podcast, self sufficiency, smallholding, wood, Woodland, woodwork

• 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

• 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

• Piggies!!!

  Last week we spent a huge amount of time building an enclosure and hut for some pigs!!! All the elements of their housing other than the electric fencing have been repurposed from things we had in the barns, leftovers from other building projects or reclaimed items like a collection of doors that a neighbour was…

  Ellie

  June 8, 2018

  Livestock, Working the land

  building, electric fence, fencing, Livestock, piglets, pigs, repurposing, reusing

• 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