Welcome to our blog!
We want to share our self sufficient life with you. We’ll share information on growing your own food, harvesting, preserving and of course keeping and breeding chickens!
There’s lots more on our YouTube channel and of course, you can equip yourself with products from our Shop. We love to chat and share, so feel free to comment or ask us questions via our Contact Form
How We Began Our Smallholding / Homesteader Life
We want to explain a little about where we live, how we live and look at why we chose this life because let’s face it, no-one chooses to be a smallholder for the short hours and easy money! Why did we become smallholders? Have you ever noticed that it’s much easier to know what you…
A Guide to Chicken Saddles
When we were first introduced to the concept of chicken saddles it conjured up images of chickens racing across a field with tiny little jockeys bobbing up and down on their backs. A very comical image but chicken saddles are an incredibly important tool to chicken breeders or anyone who has a flock with a…
Bird Flu and Chicken Boredom Busters
We started keeping chickens so that we could free range them and raise them to high welfare standards. Unfortunately, bird flu (caused by the Avian Influenza virus) has become a large issue in the UK as well as across Europe, the USA and many other parts of the world. This means that at the moment…