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Today’s harvest is a clutch of butternut squashes- these are harvested perhaps a little prematurely but I thought it may trigger the plants to set more fruit and there’s plenty more green ones on the vine. The squashes are a … Continue reading →

Whilst looking at the different curing times of wood for firewood, I stumbled across the following barmy, but quite fascinating link: http://mb-soft.com/public3/globalzl.html The web page describes how to build essentially a large wooden washing drum to heat your home. Its … Continue reading →

Well July turned out to be quite a damp month and August has started the same way, which is making me very glad that we have the polytunnel. Tonights tea will be garden vegetable soup or risotto followed by strawberry’s … Continue reading →

Here at the farm on the hill, we’ve just had a very exciting weekend with the delivery of our first ‘real’ livestock.  On Sunday we finally took delivery of 10 rare breed Soay sheep. very exciting! Soay sheep are a … Continue reading →

Well, we’ve been away for a week and in that time the polytunnel has turned into a veritable jungle. The amount of courgettes and cucumbers that have set is ashtonishing. I’ve put some gherkins onto pickle, which takes a good … Continue reading →

Well it’s that time of year. We’ve got to the stage where courgettes are being smuggled into every dish. They are delicious and we’re big fans of deep fried stuffed-courgette flowers, but we’ve discovered that not all courgettes are created … Continue reading →

Here on the farm we’ve got a lot of paths/lawns to mow, which has the benefit of generating huge amounts of lawn clippings. We’re using these as quick as they come for mulching various veggies, making hay or just topping … Continue reading →

Here on the farm we’ve been busy preparing for some new arrivals and enjoying the summer sun. Most of the preparation has been fixing-up the old stock fencing around the main field. Orgionally dry-stone wall, the edges have been mostly … Continue reading →

Its been around a month since we started to dig out the beds in the polytunnel and get things planted. My back won’t be sad to see an end to digging over new ground and looking back at photos, its … Continue reading →

When we first moved to the farm on the hill, we inherited a chicken and, as it later transpired, a cat. The chicken is a spotted, flighty bantam- quite attractive but not the best egg layer and after we brought-up … Continue reading →