Seven new apple trees for the garden and the prospect of lots of lovely fruit in the years ahead..

The frigid winter continues, which means there’s not a huge amount of work that can be done on the Home Farm presently.  One of the jobs that you can do is get a head start with your spuds by “chitting” them - here’s how.

probably not a great idea to video my first sweetcorn harvest, but what the hell.  It was exciting stuff!

Turn your back at this time of the year and a beautiful, tasty courgette has turned in to a giant marrow…

We decided over the weekend to extend our vegetable patch and annexe more of our lawn (if I keep going like this soon I will have no lawn left - no more grass cutting, hurrah!).  Rather than hire a rotivator to get rid of the grass we moved in our two piggies.  Talk about a win-win situation.  We save money on the rotivator, the pigs are delighted with the fresh ground to root on, and they manure the soil in the process (mechanical rotivators are good but they can’t manage that!).  Click read more to watch the videos: