Our Smallholding Adventure

We are Tracy & Steven and along with our 2 children we moved to the countryside in the North East of England in 2016. On our smallholding we strive for a more self reliant life by growing our own food, raising our own meat, cooking, preserving & foraging all whilst working full time.

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Showing posts with label 2017 thoughts. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2017 thoughts. Show all posts

Friday, 30 June 2017

Rain, rain and more rain - but that's ok!

I think most of the UK has had rain this week. The ground here desperately needed it. It's rained non stop for a good few days so all...

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Avian Flu Silver lining and odds and sods

Like all poultry keepers, I'm sick of this avian flu for one reason or another. I do not want to get into politics as we all have our o...

Friday, 20 January 2017

Getting the growing plans in order and on paper

Something I want to do shortly is measure what we have land wise. I want an accurate overhead, bird’s eye view of our home. This wil...

Friday, 6 January 2017

2016 Oil, electricity, water and other bills plus a few 2017 plans

Sorry for no photos on this one, it's more about keeping records! In our first year in the house we’ve used 4500 litres of oil and it c...

Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Loving the January feeling

All too often, I hear people saying how miserable January is, it's ages until pay day, nothing to do on dark nights, bored etc etc. I d...

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

December birthday and raspberry vodka

Sounds like a good combination right :) It was my birthday yesterday and also my long day at work, however it was great fun. I heard fro...

Tuesday, 15 November 2016

More planning - this time meat

Now I appreciate not everyone wants to raise, kill and eat their own meat and in this post I am thinking more about next year and planning ...

Thursday, 10 November 2016

A little catch up, birthdays, snow, polytunnel thoughts and 2017 potatoes!

I have broken my phone and have an old spare which doesn’t do photo’s as well but bear with me. It also means I have to boot the lapto...

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Getting the balance of what self sufficient means to us - the balance

I've been thinking more and more about self sufficiency and how it applies to us, or rather how we apply us to it. There are some ve...

Friday, 28 October 2016

Thinking of next year (again)

I haven't been on everyone's blogs for a day or two but I will catch up this weekend and am looking forward to it. This week has g...

Thursday, 18 August 2016

Bullace/wild plum and more apples!

The veg plot was postponed as today went by in a flash. This morning I had more jobs to get done than I realised but I enjoyed the day and ...

Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Windfall chuntney with the first apples of the year

Tonight I’ve made ‘windfall apple chutney’ using the first lot of apples we collected from the ground. The kids did all of the col...

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