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 currents appearing; flowers...

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 potatoes are in r...

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

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

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 around 30 hrs non stop,...

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 post thumper does the j...

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

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

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 can normally hear th...

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 needs turning and now it...

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 / 'He That Can Build T...

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 the stall. 'Dont spe...