We started off the last farm month with promising weather and a first cut of haylage in one field. Considering that this time last year, all hay was safely in the shed, we had high hopes for a repeat. Alas the weather had other ideas and a very wet June has ensued. There have been … [Read more…]
Hot on the heels of my last vegetable post, I am in full throttle. Well, in my head anyway. The planning stage is still underway and, as I follow a lot of allotment growers and smallholders on social media, I thought who better to ask for advice. So I asked them what would be their … [Read more…]
I may be a farmer’s wife but a lot of this Good Life stuff doesn’t come completely naturally to me. Last summer when I endeavoured to grow some flowers and vegetables, I was a but disgruntled with how hard it was and that some of the fails were actually out of my hands. Not to … [Read more…]
