Easy ways to reduce your food’s carbon footprint
Everybody these days is talking about their carbon footprint - well if they care about the planet they are. A carbon footprint is a measure of how much carbon dioxide…
Our first Poultry Auction
Our local Lions Club runs a huge auction once a month, not just for poultry, but any household or farm goods you can think of can be found on auction…
10 Tips for Sustainable Living
When I first started down the path towards living a sustainable life – a path that I am still following but am nowhere near finished (and a path that I…
A second generation
When we first bought our Suffolk ewes back in 2012, we purchased them from a local Suffolk stud. We purchased experienced ewes as we were inexperienced farmers and we wanted to…
Vegetarian Free Zone: Growing our Own Meat
I want to write about growing our own meat, so if you're a vegetarian, may I suggest you stop reading now as I don't want to offend you but I…
Happy Anniversary
Well I just realised it is one year since I entered the blogosphere. It's been good for me and I hope to do more now that I have some more…
Sustainable work life balance
Sustainable work life balance - it's really the ultimate dream of many of us ... maintaining that balance between things we have to do and things we want to do.…
Tomatoes
I had the pleasure of going to one of my favourite farmers' markets last weekend and aside from spending time with some good friends, I picked up 5 kgs of…
Blackberries
Isn't it funny how one word can produce such an array of emotions? We have blackberries on our farm, big, out of control, never-been-sprayed blackberries. While I recognise that they…
Slow day
Today is the first day of my holidays and I decided that I would have a 'home' day, a day to purposefully stay at home and do things around the…