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• Smallholding Sunday

  

  A photo round up of our jobs and fun here on the smallholding this summer! Baling hay, fruit and veg, building and fun.

  Ellie

  September 5, 2021

  Children, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, fruit, fruit cage, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Orchard, orchard field, plants, self sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, trees, vegetables, weeds

• Weekend waffle

  A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live here A bit of tree planting, the starts of a Japanese inspired garden, snow and a puppy!!

  Ellie

  February 2, 2019

  Building work, Garden, The tin hut, Working the land

  building work, gardening, Japanese garden, orchard field, plants, rocks, rubble, smallholding, stream, tin hut, trees, Waterways, willow, Yard

• 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

• 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  We originally made a pledge to go out and learn something new about our local area or visit somewhere each month….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

• 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

• Episode three is up!

  Episode three is up on YouTube Show notes…. Knitting: Finished the Daydreamer and the Deco mat, owl puff and owl hat…. started the socks…. Nearly a HO! Sewing: Curtains curtains and more curtains PJS done, baby’s tshirt done Cutting out…. Acquisitions: only the curtain poles!! Shop update: vintage snug hat Farm update: hedging, fencing, diggers,…

  Ellie

  February 26, 2017

  knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Patterns, Podcast, Sewing, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Woodland, Working the land

  digger, fencing, pit of doom, slurry pit, tractor, treeplanting, trees

• Back through the woods… The woodland part three

  Once we had managed to make it down to the stream we had to climb all the way back up!!! However we found that the old coppice paths still were visible through the woodland and they, other than the occasional blockage allowed for us to clamber back up somewhat more easily!!! Well definitely more easily…

  Ellie

  March 29, 2015

  Wanderings, Wildlife, Woodland, Working the land

  fungi, lichen, moss, rubbish, scarlet elf cups, trees, Woodland

• The woodland part one!

  James and I decided that the other weekend was a good time to start surveying the woodland.  So we togged up and off we went with paper, books and camera in hand!!!    We went into the woodland from the furthest corner of big field…. And we worked our way down through the woodland…

  Ellie

  March 25, 2015

  Wanderings, Wildlife, Woodland

  burrows, celandine, forest school, fungi, glade, hazel, oak, trees, Woodland

• Clearing the rough pasture

  Over the last month James and I have been clearing the rough pasture as this is the new venue for an orchard!! This means more weeds…. More bramble forests and some chainsawing up of goat willows and overhanging branches!

  Ellie

  November 28, 2014

  Working the land

  brambles, branches, clearing, Orchard, Rough Pasture, trees, weeds