Woodland
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Smallholding Sunday
A goal setting post for the smallholding this year
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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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Weekend waffle
A new episode of Weekend Waffle is live on the YouTube channel A withybed built and you can see what we have be up to in the Polytunnel!! It’s all rather exciting!! 😁
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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…
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What a week!!
Well this week has been a whirlwind after our usual more sedate pace round here!! Monday we were at the hospital for another growth scan and clinic…. Not a great photo but he is a larger baby than his brother and running out of space!!! (7 weeks till due date!) Tuesday we caught up on…
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Some more work in the woods
April meant more tidying up of the woodland and the rides, dealing with some fallen trees and starting to demarcate the rides and paths and accesses! Also we have not killed off the hedge by laying!!!!!!! Hurrah!!!! And we have some more wood for the wood piles!!!
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Starting work in the woods
James and I finished off the hedge laying and started a woodland entrance…. We seem to start work and more bits appear!!!! We have a downed ash to chop up and some blackthorns to chop up to make steps…. Oh and reams more of the damn black plastic and more tyres!!!! Oh and it looks…
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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…
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Down to the stream…. The woodland part two
So…. We decided to clamber (ok for me slide down on my arse) down to the stream which is our boundary with the neighbours across the valley. Down and down we went….. Things got more mossy, damper, warmer, more ferns appeared on the ground…. Then the woodland opened up for the…