It's that time of year that all the hard work starts to pay off. Outdoor tomatoes in their windproof cage ... and with fruit; Red...

The veg garden has been temporarily ( I hope) wrapped up again after forecast of snow and minus temperatures over the next few days. As...

Lovely home produced Hogget; boned breast rolled with a herb stuffing. #growyouown #gyo #jacobsheep #welshjacobsheep #jacobsheepsociety...

Sausages and pork joints and chops are now available. Flavours are traditional, pork and leek, pork and apple, British banger and old...

Saturday was interesting. We'd gone out to make our sausages and came back to river running down the track. It had been raining for...

The OH has been busy this year (in amongst his other jobs) with fencing the top perimeter boundary. Normally a man and a tractor and...

We have holiday cottages along the track from us. We received these lovely drawings from the children who stayed there recently. It was a...

Our hay meadows are going great. Loads of different grasses and wild flowers including stichwort which is found on ancient and...

The Goshawks are missing! Two pairs are missing!! Around us we, normally, have two pairs of goshawks nesting and at this time of year we...

Thistleing. What you do when you find thistles in your pasture meadows THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE! Thistles that are not in the pasture...

The OH, commonly known as 'He That Can Build Things' came up trumps again with two new compost bins for me. The old one is full and...

Building of shelters is ongoing. Although we have a lot of trees and hedgerows; give sheep a shelter and they will use it. So the OH /...

Well, its the Smallholders and countryside Spring Fayre at the RWAS in Builth Wells. I wnet off to have a look around, while he manned...