If you’ve been reading our blog you’ll know that we are self sufficient in fruit. That is unless we decide we want a banana or pineapple which struggle in the …
fruit garden Garden homesteading smallholding TreesThe last of the Fruit Harvest (thank goodness!)
fruit garden Garden Grow Your OwnBlackberry Bliss
We have a large fruit cage in our field where we grow raspberries and blackberries. I appreciate it’s not pretty, but who needs pretty when we really need fruit. It’s …
fruit garden Garden Grow Your Own homesteading smallholdingOur Cheap Fruit Cage is Paying Off!
Over this last winter here in the UK we were required by law to keep our lovely chickens either indoors or in fully netted enclosures due to Avian Influenza Restrictions. …
Garden Grow Your Own HomebrewStrawberries Everywhere!
I love strawberries. I really, really love strawberries. To feed my love of these fruits we’ve planted 300 square feet of them in our field. At this time of year …
Grow Your Own HomebrewA Good Year for Fruit and Fruit Wine
We grow lots of our own fruit here on the smallholding. We preserve it in lots of different ways so that we can enjoy all year round, but in season …