Tyddyn Bryn

hedges

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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…

  Ellie

  May 25, 2018

  Livestock, Working the land

  Big Field, escapology, fencing, fields, hedgerows, hedges, sheep, Small field, tenants

• 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

• 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…

  Ellie

  February 3, 2018

  Craftiness, Firewood, Forest schools, Life with a toddler, Woodland, Working the land

  baby, Big Field, fencing, gates, glastir, hedges, inspection, orchard field, Rough Pasture, Sewing, Small field, Spinning, visitors, Woodland, woodlands

• Hedging!!

  Our lovely neighbour leant us a new toy last week!!!!    So we spent a few days cutting the overgrown hedge and chipping it into a partial path down the side of the orchard!!                                 One hedge done loads more to go……

  Ellie

  January 7, 2016

  Working the land

  hedges, path, wood chipper

• Starting work in the woods

  James and I finished off the hedge laying and started a woodland entrance….  We seem to start work and more bits appear!!!! We have a downed ash to chop up and some blackthorns to chop up to make steps…. Oh and reams more of the damn black plastic and more tyres!!!! Oh and it looks…

  Ellie

  April 29, 2015

  Woodland, Working the land

  hedges, Woodland