How many of you have heard of Jerusalem Artichokes? Not the Globe Artichokes that you can easily buy in the supermarket, but Jerusalem Artichokes? No? No-one? Well you’re not alone. …
Garden Grow Your OwnJerusalem Artichokes – Underrated and Perennial
Grow Your Own homesteading smallholdingI love HOT chilli sauce!
It’s true! Hot sauce is amazing and thankfully Hugh grows lots of chillies for me and every year grows a new variety that he’s never grown before. 3 years ago …
Grow Your Own Homebrew homesteadingWho Knew Parsnips Are So Versatile?
The humble parsnip is a vegetable that only EVER was roasted in our home before we started our smallholding lifestyle. Like most things in our home we use the phrase …
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 HomebrewFor the love of Elders
This week we have been making elderflower cordial and its made me think about the underappreciated Elder tree. We have lots of elder trees on our smallholding and we make …
Flower Garden GardenThe June Cottage Garden
We love our home. It’s not a stately mansion nor large but we constantly look at this beautiful cottage and wonder how we got so lucky to be here. For …
GardenA Sustainable Closed Loop Eco-System (or The Cycle of Poop!)
We try to live as sustainably as possible. We make use of as many things produced on the smallholding as possible and that includes all of the poop that the …