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The Forest Smallholding
- May 10, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
... 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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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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