During the lockdown, we had 5 guests guaranteed with us for 3 months after they were meant to leave and then we enjoyed the farm to ourselves for a while. For those of you that are not following us on social media for our daily updates, here are some photos of all the things we were up to. We are now open for guests and are running permaculture internships.
With all retreats and courses cancelled we have to find other ways to make cash. Homemade Holummi was on the list!Our beehive expanded its colony and we caught two swarms for our two empty hives.Inside the chicken house that we finished during the lockdownThe chicken compost system was finishedWe got new pigs 🙂Huge garlic harvest, including elephant garlicRegular harvest of foodLots of fresh vegetables and not so many guests so we started doing some veggie boxes to local farmsA large area planted with three sisters to the left and right. Watermelons in the ditch in the middle with peanuts and sweet potatoSummer seeds plantedWinter grains harvested for seed savingNew gluten-free bread recipe created!Huge sunflower field planted to collect seeds for sprouting.Summer afternoons sitting in the shade and enjoying the hustle and bustle of the countryside go bySummer veg planted out. Here we have a bucket of tomato seedlings, a bucket of homemade compost, a bucket of worm castings and a bucket of egg shells for the tomato plantsWe expanded our worm farm systems and started selling worms online by postWe had three rounds of new chicksWe had lots of eggs. I also have been recording research over 4 months on egg-laying chicken nutrition and how to reduce bought feed by converting them onto homegrown feed.I started selling compost worms online and posting themThis lamb would not take milk from the mum. So Kimberly and I helped it do so for 3 weeks until it started doing it by herself.On the farm we have 5 types of strawberries and 6 types of raspberries. This summer we started to enjoy the fruits from them all.We sheared our sheep, cleaned the wool and used it for insulation in our house
My first sheep skin rugs cut into three shapesGrowing food is one thing. Here we regularly ferment food and try to eat fermented food every day.We dug new swalesour homemade Sheep wool being installed in a ceilingSheep wool from 35 sheep straight from the bard ready to be processed.Yoga classes in the morning for guests that quarantined with usPlanting inside and outside the chicken runWe had new kittens and this one loves the sheepskin rugFlowers came, flowers went 🙂
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