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Expanding your homestead is going to take quite a bit of money. After all, you’ve got a lot of things to invest in here, and it might take a while for you to really get that expansion project going. However, working out ahead of time what you can afford and when you’ll be able to … [Read more…]
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not one for wrapping kids up in cotton wool or stopping them from rolling around in the mud from time to time. Instead, I think a bit of dirt from getting out and exploring the world is a good thing. At the same time, however, my kids are very … [Read more…]
There are a lot of things that you should be looking into when it comes to improving your homestead and making positive decisions for the future right now. Being able to work on your property and improve it is integral to developing a happier, healthier, and more enjoyable place to live, and this is … [Read more…]
As a farmer’s wife, it interests me to find different methods of farming including sharing tips about the industry itself. However, with changes being made to the world, organic farming is becoming more and more popular. This post will take a look at some of the changes that can be made and the scientific impacts it can have … [Read more…]
So, ages ago I wrote a post about farming being similar to royalty. It was a tongue-in-cheek piece about heirs and inheritance. Lately though I’ve been thinking of it more seriously. I imagine in most farming families, there are eager children who are desperate to become ‘the farmer’. Do their own thing, explore new ideas, … [Read more…]
Most months when I write the Farm life series, I write a similar thing ‘I didn’t think anything had happened until I looked back at the photos’. This month it is true. The farm has been quiet. Straw dragged on and on and on. It was the latest finish I have ever known. Since being … [Read more…]
August has been a funny old month on the farm. As always, it has been the weather which has dominated everything. Very hot and wet weather seems to be the norm now in the UK summer time but it really does not correspond well with hay making. Having said that, we got a … [Read more…]
During the peak of Covid-19 in the UK, the news mainly focussed on farming with headlines about dairy farmers dumping massive quantities of milk, empty supermarket shelves and vegetable crops rotting in fields. While all of these things happened, there are a few areas of British agriculture which thrived and I think they deserve recognition … [Read more…]
As predicted, July on the farm has been mainly abut field work. It’s not been cut and dry though, literally. You need a good dry period with hot sunshine to make hay and the sun, when it does make an appearance, doesn’t seem to be very hot. Nevertheless, hay and haylage has been made and … [Read more…]
Wow what a month on the farm. If you remember in the May Farm Life, I said we had finished lambing and I was very pleased with my one Ryeland lamb. Well, nature has a habit of surprising you and imagine how surprised I was when the farmer beckoned me to the front field one … [Read more…]
