sustainable
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Wool’s Journey: From Fleece to Finished Yarn
The story of wool is one of transformation, creativity, and tradition. Every skein of yarn tells a tale, beginning with a flock of sheep grazing on the hills and fields. In this post, we’ll explore the fascinating journey that wool takes from fleece to finished yarn, with a special focus on the sustainable practices we…
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An Open Letter to British Wool: The Disenfranchisement of Small Wool Producers
Yesterday, I stepped away from the usual grind for a much-needed day of woolly shenanigans at the Wool Museum in Drefach Felindre. It was fabulous to catch up with many familiar faces, including Sascha, Jane, Michelle, Sara and Debby. The event we attended marked the launch of the Welsh Wool label and traceability scheme—a monumental…
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What is the deal with Super wash Wool?
All our yarns are non super wash here at Tyddyn Bryn and there are good reasons behind this!! This post has been in progress for a little over a month now. I was unsure if I should post it, worried I would offend someone, but I’ve decided to go ahead and share, because it is something I strongly…
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The Firewood poem
I thought I would share a poem I found about firewood today! Given that we like lighting fires for cooking, sharing, making drinks etc in our forest school sessions! We are also completely wood fired at the smallholding here, a log fuelled Esse for cooking, heating and hot water when the solar thermal panels are…
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Sustainable Saturday and Salami 😂
As well as sustainable Saturday being live on the YouTube channel here I uploaded a blog about how we made salami back on Wednesday!! In other news…. The small additions to the household are making themselves at home!! 😂
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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
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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…