Crushing the grapes

Crushing the grapes

We grow all sorts of things here on the smallholding! Veggies in the raised beds and Polytunnel. We have a 50 tree multi fruit orchard. A fruit cage full of berries (although that looks like a rewilding project at the moment) However at each end of our fruit cage we...
Plums!!

Plums!!

A few of the trees in the orchard are plums! Some yellow some deep pink and a few damsons and greengages thrown in for luck! Some time in August and most often the Bank holiday weekend is the time to pick them! This year with less sunshine than previous years they...
Honey

Honey

So, if you have visited us here you will know that we have a few bee hives dotted around the place. This year, finally we have managed to keep a hive to fruition. Away from wasp attacks, from swarming and all the other multitudes of issues that can happen to hives up...