Tyddyn Bryn

self sufficiency

• Sustainable Saturday

  Today I have the first in a series of vlogs outlining small changes we are making here to become more sustainable, ditch the plastic and have less of an impact on the environment… Here is the link Now for the puppy spam

  Ellie

  January 12, 2019

  Podcast, Sustainability

  ditch the plastic, Podcast, self sufficiency, smallholding, Sustainability, sustainable

• 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

• Goodbye 2018… hello 2019

  So I have made a couple of vlogs rounding up 2018 And a vlog about plans for 2019!!

  Ellie

  January 6, 2019

  Books, Building work, Craftiness, Fruit and vegetables, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, The tin hut

  building, building work, crafting, crochet, Etsy, forest school, forestschool, gardening, knitting, Podcast, self sufficiency, Sewing, smallholding, Spinning, tin hut, vegetables, Weaving

• 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

• Farm update

  Soooo in lieu of a podcast which I may not have time to do or enough content for, for a few weeks…. here is the farm update for recent weeks!!! Sooo…. back at the end of March on his due date we became a family of four when baby Mathew put in an appearance!! All…

  Ellie

  April 24, 2018

  baby, Day tripping, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Wanderings, Working the land

  baby, fruit, gardening, plants, Polytunnel, self sufficiency, sheep, simple living, slurry pit, sustainable, toddler, vegetables, visitors

• 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