Hot, dry summer days brings a new set of challenges when providing water to your poultry. Let us describe how we have solved some of these issues. Drinker Types Hot …
ChickensHot Summers and Poultry Drinkers
homesteading smallholdingHow 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 …
Grow Your Own UncategorizedJerusalem Artichokes – Underrated and Perennial
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. …
fruit garden Garden homesteading smallholding TreesThe last of the Fruit Harvest (thank goodness!)
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 …
homesteading Maintenance smallholdingMaintaining Our Woodburning Esse Oven
We are incredibly proud of our little cottage. It’s bigger now but back in the 1700s it was only a 2 up/2 down arrangement and our lounge would have been …
Garden Grow Your OwnA delayed growing season and LOTS of weeds!
There are reports that the weather in May in the UK is on track to be the wettest on record and the coldest in 25 years. We grow as much …