Our Smallholding Life, Flowers βnβ all: Recent Episodes
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Life on a smallholding in rural Oxfordshire growing cut flowers for selling. All that entails and why I love doing it.
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A change of direction from the original podcast and all about growing and selling cut flowers.
November Update. Life has become much more busy since I started the podcast and so updates are the easiest way for me to keep in touch with everyone these days.
A quick round of whatβs been happening here since the last episode which was ages ago π
A little bit about what I have been up to on the smallholding but mostly about growing cut flowers π
Hello π sorry it has been so long, things are beginning to ramp up in the growing year now so there should be a lot more for me to talk about.
I thought I wouldnβt do any more recording but you will hear all about why I was fading off and what I intend to do in this next season during this episode x
The final episode for this season and maybe ever π€·ββοΈ who knows, never say never but for now I feel it has run itβs course. Thank you for listening folks x
I am not sure if I am coming or going this week, emotions are running high and I am tired.
All the things that I have been doing this week including rescuing and looking after a baby hedgehog π¦
What have we been doing science we came back from our holiday? Weeding and washing π
Itβs British Flower week π more in this extra episode about the things I have learnt as a start up flower farmer. If you are thinking of doing some thinking similar then hopefully the journey I am on will help you too c
We have had a swarm, all about that and all the other things that I have been doing this week.
More flower bouquets to make and I came second again in our local flower club competition π
The poultry restrictions are being lifted finally and I have been making a few flowers up for customers, all that and more besides.
A round up of my flower farming journey so far, it is still all very new but how I got here and how it is going.
A bit of everything thatβs been happening, the holiday weekend and lots of birthday celebrations.
A terrible week my emotions have taken a battering as well as my health π I tested positive π
Still chomping at the bit to get seed sowing underway on a big scale but got to hold my horses and wait for longer days and warmer temperatures. Plenty of rain this week π
That is the end of the calendar, thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to sharing our goings on with you in 2022.
All kinds of things this week including the chicken lockdown preparations and the goose laid a surprise egg!
A quick round up of what I have been doing, planting tulip bulbs, making cards and the Christmas pudding is done. Bird flu and lockdown π
I really had to get the accounts done and dusted this week. The egg numbers have dropped very low and what direction do we want to move forward in? All this and more in the episode.
COP26: What results or changes will come out of this conference, will they be enough. Who is doing anything about it if itβs not enough?
After the high of last week there are a couple lows this week π some achievement and a surprise find or twoπ
Keeping chickens, what you need to know about keeping chickens and other poultry on a long term basis in order to get the best product from your birds. I have kept birds for nearly twenty years and this is how I do it and what I have learned along the way.
Me rambling about ways to future proof your life in various ways and why I think it is important π
Bit of a long one this week π I have included a couple of verbal tours of areas of the smallholding. We had a βsurpriseβ this week in amongst everything else π
Am I alone in my thoughts or are there plenty of others out there who think the same? Let me know π
This week I am able to tell you about the secret I have been keeping and what has been keeping me very busy here apart from Smallholding stuff π #belltentvillage
It gets busy with the harvesting in the fruit and veg garden this time of year. Trying not to waste a single thing I am have grown takes up a lot of time π
What has been happening this week, John had a second week off from his regular job so we have been busy getting stuff done.
This episode is slightly off piste but I talk about Lupus and how it affects our smallholding life.
This episode is by Shelley who came to look after the smallholding while we went for some much needed R & R π₯°
What makes someone want to be self sufficient, exploring my personality traits is interesting and enlightening, to me at any rate π
Food waste, the bigger back story to food waste, what you and I can do about reducing our food waste and Earth Overshoot day.
We have some new arrivals, lady friends for Ted the Turkey who has been lonely for over a year now. The weather has been shocking for July/Aug
In this episode I talk about where my inclination to grow my own came from and also a bit about what kind of practises I try to implement.
John and I are chalk and cheese in every way you could possibly think of except our core values but it does work somehow.
What have I been up to this week? You can also catch up with goings on by reading my blog which can be found at www.frieslandfarm.com or on Facebook under Friesland Farm π
This episode covers the areas we are self sufficient in. If the world as we know it suddenly changed for the worst could we manage to feed ourselves without leaving the smallholding?
A quick roundup of what has been happening the past couple of days on the smallholding these episodes will all be called Smallholding round up and I explain in the episode how it will work in conjunction the Monday episodes.
My first ever podcast about our smallholding life, who are we, what do we do, why do we do it and how does it all work. To be fair it is a bit of a ramble and not scripted, which will be obvious lol. I am an ordinary, everyday person living a not quite so ordinary life. I donβt have any qualifications that could be considered useful in the world of work except O levels but what I do have is a lifetime of experience, practical abilities and oodles of common sense which I think more than makes up for it π