What a difference yesterday was in terms of weather. The field that took three years of clearing is starting to reveal new plant life....

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

The Swamp Field. This area floods, hence it's name. We decided to work with nature and over the past three years we have planted: Alder,...

While i was away the OH has been very busy finishing clearing a very steep part of the holding. This has been an on-going job since we...

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

Making a Hay feeder. This is the fourth husband has made. The original idea is from the fantastic smallholders book 'The Smallholders...

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

"Marmite! It's 31*C where you are! Are you mad?" Think, just a few weeks ago my old pygmy goats were back off to Africa in search of...

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 /...

Here they are! They have started to expand their range and have now discovered there is more to the woodland than their ark and the...

1st June dawned. Today was 'Pig Day'. Five lovely piglets from a local breeder. Large Black Welsh cross. We have 3 boars (boys) and 3...

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...