Tyddyn Bryn

weeds

• 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

• Smallholding update!

  

  Living the dream!!! So many people say this to us!! And it always makes me laugh a little, yes in so very many ways we are living the dream, but I really don’t think a lot of people realise how much hard work the dream is!! Take this week for example!! All the rain and…

  Ellie

  November 15, 2020

  animals, Building work, News, Plans, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  building, building work, clearing, fields, flooding, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Livestock, ponies, sheep, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, water, weeds, willow

• What’s doing??

  We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…

  Ellie

  June 3, 2020

  animals, Building work, Food and drink, Sustainability, Working the land

  Big Field, building work, cordial, digging, elderflower, fields, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, horses, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, ponies, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, Small field, smallholding, vegetables, water, weed wars, weeds, wine, Yard

• 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

• 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

• Where has the willow gone…..

  A while ago I planted a load of willow sticks to produce basketry willow….. Then the sticky bud weeds ate them….    So I went hunting…… With overalls and gloves….. Then replanted the willows temporarily in a trug from the barn!!!    Ta da!!!! 

  Ellie

  July 8, 2015

  Working the land

  weeds, willow

• Another new arrival!!

  We had a fantastic delivery last weekend on the smallholding!!!! James’ parents bought him an early birthday pressie!!! Introducing the BEAST!!! It is an amazing field and brush mower that is going to make maintaining the field sooooo much easier!!!! It weighs a tonne and has literally eaten it’s way across the field that will…

  Ellie

  December 5, 2014

  Working the land

  clearing the weeds, grass, mower, weeds

• 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

• Weed wars!

  During our fortnight at the farm weed wars continued!!! Having gotten a handle on the nettles with cutting and spraying and the brambles too…. I moved onto GIANT HOGWEED!!!!! A vile plant that grows enormously and seeds and attracts flies and horseflies!!!!!! And it is also colonising our orchard field….. Sooo me a set of…

  Ellie

  August 27, 2014

  Working the land

  brambles, hogweed, nettles, weeds