Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged fleece, sheep, solar energy, spinning, wool on 11 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
Had the sheep shearer come today - nice lad, very competent at his work, kind with the sheep, and takes care over not cutting them. He’s a local lad, and divides his time between here and New Zealand.
Although I think it would be good if we learned to shear.. watching him work.. I realise it’s quite [...]
Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, sheep on 8 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
the window for lambing now draws to a close.. if they squeezed any out now they remaining ewes would have had to have been tupped on the ram’s last day, and be a week late too! - is not going to happen…
So - not a roaring success.
Only one out of the three ewes lambed.. she [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel. I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]
Posted in grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vermin on 6 May 2008 | No Comments »
Caught in one of the instant death traps this morning. Let’s hope he was working alone. I feel no remorse.. it was him or our food.
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 4 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
what are nettles good for #4
Honestly, I thought nettle beer would be disgusting….and it’s not - its really very good!.. made in a similar way to elderflower champagne (but not quite as wonderful).
Me being me.. I looked at a few recipes for nettle beer, then tweaked it into my own. A hit with us - so [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 May 2008 | No Comments »
a very good day - we took part in a community event and walked around a wood owned by one our neighbours - really inspiring, planted twenty years ago, and looks wonderful. We would like to put some trees in for coppicing - we don’t have enough land to supply ourselves with firewood, but we [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, grow your own food, house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Now have a water butt set up for the greenhouse. Up until now, we have been collecting rainwater.. but not in the right place. We have a 400 gallon ex-juice container collecting off the old piggery, but to get water to the greenhouse means filling up two watering cans, walking up the lane, up the [...]
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