Self-sufficient in Suburbia

  We had no rain from 22nd March to 22nd May. Admittedly there were 5 moments of slight drizzle during those 2 months but that didn't ev...

  The byproduct of shaving the sheep earlier in May was a big pile of wool. We have no use for it. We typically give some of it away to allo...

  Our egg glut continues so we've made custard to use up some of them. It goes well with apple crumble.

  Crystal, the lamb we are having to hand raise, has started eating solids, mainly weeds and grass. This is good news as we are able to star...

  Two of our Buff Orpington hens went broody a few weeks ago so we collected up 17 white leghorn fertile eggs and put them into the incubato...

  We were hoping to repeat last year's success in lambing by not having to bottle feed any of this year's lambs. Alas, it was not to...

  One of the local residential homes cut back their hawthorn hedge recently and phoned me to ask if I wanted the branches and trimmings for ...