Tyddyn Bryn

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• 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

  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

• Mini digger hired!! Check!!

  So James decided to hire a mini digger this week…. and has been out in it all day every day working hard to create better waterways, raised beds, scrape the barns, flatten play areas…. etc etc!! Busy times!! Someone else rather liked the digger too!!! And very quickly figured out whilst sat on Daddy’s lap…

  Ellie

  March 16, 2018

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Wanderings, Working the land

  barn, building, building work, clearing, Drainage, flooding, gardening, path, slurry pit, smallholding, stream, veg garden, water, Yard

• 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

• 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

• The before and afters!!!

  So….. The path… It took soooo much work and time and back ache I feel it deserves a before and after shot!!!! Before….. After…. So that’s two, no wait we dug one out… Three gates, a tonne of brambles and nettles, tyres, rocks, silage bags, mud, more rocks and rubble to give traction for the…

  Ellie

  October 29, 2014

  Working the land

  field, gates, metalwork, mud, path, rocks, Yard

• Path building

  For the last few weeks of visits James and I have concentrated our efforts! post failed diggering at sorting, clearing, digging, rubbleing etc the path from the yard into the field behind….. This field is no longer orchard field as James feels we have too little flat land to devote it to orchard….. Orchard and…

  Ellie

  October 28, 2014

  Working the land

  metalwork, mud, path, rough field, rubble, Yard

• Digger!!!

  As well as the building work last weekend James hired a mini digger (too mini for the job he wanted it for as it turned out) As I left to go into cardigan to look at tiles he was a happy husband playing diggers and building a path down into orchard field from the yard!…

  Ellie

  September 29, 2014

  Working the land

  diggers, Orchard, path, Yard

• A walk over the valley

  After losing Polly neither James nor I could face working and weed wars so we decided to explore the locale and walked up to the chapel in the opposite valley!!!

  Ellie

  September 16, 2014

  Wanderings

  chapel, path, slate, stream, walk