Big Field
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Sheepy shenanigans
So…. back in February a Beulah speckled face sheep appeared on our yard…. we tried everything to find its owner, contacted ALL the agencies had animal health out, and the animal health lady checked her databases for us to try to trace the owner…. no avail… so we advertised on the gate post…. and fourteen…
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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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Bracken wars!!!
Creeping into the fields we have a wealth of bracken. As this is going to eventually impinge on the productivity of the land for haylage etc James and I waited until our tenant farmer had mown the field for his haylage and out I went with the beast!!!! Joyfully at the furthest…
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Now for something not building related!!
Mmmmm a white blob in the field….. What could it be…… The farmer who rents the fields put 26 sheepies in the field but all supposed to be barren or at least not pregnant this year…… Eek could it be remnants of dead sheepie….. Eaten by what….. (Maybe the puma one of the neighbours…
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Stuck sheep
Our field tenants, the sheep…. Mmmmm they have decided they can start to cause mayhem on the weekends we are there….. First incident….. Stuck in the brambles, so armed with gloves and secateurs James I trooped across the field to rescue it! as it seemed to have been in the brambles for a while given…