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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 2, 20201 min read
It's all go in the veg department ...
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...
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The Forest Smallholding
May 10, 20201 min read
Prepared for a mini-winter
The veg garden has been temporarily ( I hope) wrapped up again after forecast of snow and minus temperatures over the next few days. As...
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The Forest Smallholding
Nov 26, 20191 min read
... and then there was none.
Lovely home produced Hogget; boned breast rolled with a herb stuffing. #growyouown #gyo #jacobsheep #welshjacobsheep #jacobsheepsociety...
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The Forest Smallholding
Oct 29, 20191 min read
Sausages!
Sausages and pork joints and chops are now available. Flavours are traditional, pork and leek, pork and apple, British banger and old...
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The Forest Smallholding
Oct 29, 20191 min read
There she flows ...
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...
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The Forest Smallholding
Oct 9, 20191 min read
Fencing
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...
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The Forest Smallholding
Aug 23, 20191 min read
Happy children = Happy parents!
We have holiday cottages along the track from us. We received these lovely drawings from the children who stayed there recently. It was a...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Down in the meadows
Our hay meadows are going great. Loads of different grasses and wild flowers including stichwort which is found on ancient and...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 17, 20191 min read
Goshawks
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...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 16, 20191 min read
Thistleing
Thistleing. What you do when you find thistles in your pasture meadows THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE! Thistles that are not in the pasture...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 16, 20191 min read
New compost bins ...
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...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 10, 20191 min read
Shelters
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 /...
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The Forest Smallholding
Jun 10, 20191 min read
Don't spend too much ...
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...
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