Let me start with the What?Day 4 of My 28 days of Food Preserving.I follow lots of Homestead and Smallholding channels on YouTube By the way if you have one leave a link in comments so I can add you to my list.One of the channels I follow is Three River’s HomesteadFab mum of a large family, every year she does a few homestead challenges to help keep on top of things, it’s so easy to get stuck in ..read more

 A run through of what’s been happening.I have been doing Farmers Markets with the Buffalo MeatThe meat has been really selling well, I have three more to do before Christmas, but of course it means if I am out and about doing farmers markets I have had my surgery yipppppeeeeeeI am now a month post surgery and recovering well getting back to normal, it’s a bit of a pain having to travel to ..read more

 Well that’s another year flown by, a wet and windy end to this one, up to our knees in mud, Once the rain and drizzle stops we do dry out underfoot fairly quickly, thank goodness.Christmas Day was quiet and relaxed we headed down the beach with the dogs a friend joined us with her dogs tooPaige and Mia were happy running around making new friends catching up with old ones, Poppy was very scared ..read more

 And all is fine, life continues on the smallholding animals still need feeding, feeding changes in winter they need more carbs and calories to help keep them warm, and with the Buffalo shut in there winter quarters we add chopped fodder beet to there daily feedMartin went and collected a lorry load at the week end , we will proberbly need another two to see us through until they go back out to ..read more

It’s time to get some Christmas preparations on the way,  My wreath is upThe dogs have there advent calendersChristmas is a very low key affair here and we don’t buy into the commercial side of it. It is more of spending some relaxed time together enjoying a few treats that we only have at Christmas, hopefully a picnic on the beach with the dogs and we should have a friend joying us this year.I ..read more

 I have mentioned a few times that there are big changes afoot at Stickle TarnOur first big change involves the Water Buffalo, December 2017 we ventured into keeping Water Buffalo, it’s been a great adventure with lots of highs and lows, these big beasts have become part of the Stickle Tarn Family.They are placid easy to handle and a great talking point.So why are we selling.We have had many ..read more

 Let me start at the beginning, 7 weeks ago today I was standing in the kitchen talking to our neighbour who had popped round and just out of the blue my leak started.My leak is a Cranial Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leak otherwise know as a CSF. Why am I telling you about this ? Well there is not a lot of info out there and they say it’s rare but it can happen to anyone one at any time, trying to get ..read more

 I am so glad we grow and raise most of our food, I do feel there is a shift taking place more and more people are taking an interest in growing there own and learning how to preserve and store food.storing your harvests is an important part of Self Sufficiency, there is no point in putting all that time and effort into growing and it is a lot of time and effort, then letting it spoil or you give ..read more

 Meet PoppyShe has just joined our family, ex breeder from Many Tears.It has been a year since we lost our beloved Tess also an ex breeder from Many Tears who was deaf and blind.Poppy 5 years old and blind, we are hoping with treatment she can regain some sight.Her resemblance to Tess is uncanny, we are now at the stage we’re we felt we are ready to do it all again.Poppy has never lived in a ..read more

 This post should have been put up a week ago, but I was delayed because my I pad would not play ball with blogger, its been happening more and more, I have now decided to go back to using my laptop but of course I then have to move photos off phone and I pad to laptop and none of them wanted to play nicely together. Then to top it off this week I had health issues not going into details but it ..read more