Tyddyn Bryn

fruit cage

• 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

• Scrumptious Saturdays – Pear Clafoutis

  A while ago a dear friend sent me a recipe for pear clafoutis and I thought I’d share it with you! We have made this a fair few times and substituted different fruits in at different times of year or supplemented dwindling pear supplies with blackberries or apples etc etc!! It’s quite simply delightful!!!

  Ellie

  October 31, 2020

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, recipes

  clafoutis, fruit, fruit cage, grow it bake it, grow your own, grow your own food, Orchard, orchard field, pear, pear clafoutis, pudding, recipes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Planting planting and more planting

  So now the Polytunnel has been skinned we have been able to get in and plant!! So far now we have planted mangetout, beans, beetroot, carrots, spinach, leeks, rocket, spring onions and salads…. Then James has moved our two new grapevines into the corners, one red one white… He has also moved all the baby…

  Ellie

  April 30, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Working the land

  fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, plants, rocks, self sufficiency, slurry pit, vegetables, weed wars

• 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…

  Ellie

  February 25, 2018

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

  fruit, fruit cage, garden, hedgerows, hedges, market gardening, path, plants, self sufficiency, slurry pit, smallholding, wood, woodwork

• Work around the Holding

  So since we are here now every day….. We have started doing some bits around the place other than he workshop and the house! Planting some bulbs for some spring colour about the place….. Crocuses, tulips and Daffodils…. Mowing the grass …. so we can get at the bed we planted and weed the heck…

  Ellie

  October 23, 2017

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Plans, Working the land

  box, bulbs, composters, forsythia, fruit cage, hedge, mowing, muck, planting, slurry pit, spring colour

• So….

  A poorly baby limited our plans last weekend….. *sigh* the poor little man…. So I’ve missed one o my best friends Hen dos…. And there has been no podcasting time for me…. No sewing time….. And realistically not much knitting time….. I’m only up to almost the heel on my second Heath sock…..  However, at…

  Ellie

  March 13, 2017

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Working the land

  Drainage, fruit cage, pit of doom, slurry pit, veg garden