smallholding

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
Day tripping!!

We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month…. well we missed a few, time got away from us, jobs came up, regular chores took over…. and oh yes we had a beautiful new baby!! So we have made up for it recently…

Ellie

June 10, 2018

Day tripping, Garden, Wanderings, Wildlife

bees, day trip, garden, gardening, orchard field, planting, plants, Rough Pasture, smallholding, trees, Wildlife, willow
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
Chicken happenings!!

So way back on the first of March our Bresse chickens hatched out and they lived in the same cage inside as chicks as sun and Dai had lived in when they were small… but there were more of them and they grew a wee bit faster…. so they moved into a secondary cage for…

Ellie

May 23, 2018

Building work, Livestock, Working the land

chicken, chickens, coop, homestead, homesteading, housing, Livestock, smallholder, smallholding
Episode 13 show notes

Episode 13 Sunday 18th March So I’ve made it this far!!! Still got bump in tow!! Lots of little bits to tell you all about this week, some sections are a bit light on content this week, because we’ve had disturbed nap times due to toddler illness ( joyfully he threw up in the car…

Ellie

March 18, 2018

Craftiness, Firewood, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Livestock, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving, Woodwork, Working the land, yarn

baby, clearing, crafting, crochet, diggers, Drainage, drains, Etsy, knitting, Podcast, ravelry, Sewing, sheep, smallholding, socks, Spinning, water, Waterways, Weaving, woodwork, Yard, yarn
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
Episode 12 show notes finally!!

Episode 12Sunday 4th March Another one a week later than planned, but due to visitations…. First from my sister and the children and then from my parents!! So limited crafting time was had in the first couple of weeks! Knitting Managed a few more rounds on my Weasley sweater Swatching for some new patterns, these…

Ellie

March 13, 2018

Fruit and vegetables, Garden, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Working the land, yarn

acquisitions, building, crafting, crochet, farm, fruit, knitting, Podcast, Sewing, smallholding, smallholdingl life, Spinning, vegetables
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
Episode 11 show notes!!

Episode 11Monday 12th of February Only a week later than planned due to illness, starting with toddle chops and ending in all of us! Knitting One FO toddler socks New cast on…. Weasley sweater for me in Hayfield Aran bonus in purple Swatching for some new designs….. 1 shawl…. In Owl About Yarn Tibetan Owl….…

Ellie

February 12, 2018

Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving, Working the land, yarn

baking, crochet, Etsy, knitting, life, Patterns, Podcast, recipes, Sewing, smallholding, Spinning, Weaving