We got a really great surprise in the post today: a box full of tea from TeaPigs, which we won by entering a competition online recently. What a fantastic start…

In March 2019, we installed an air source heat pump to heat our property, which replaced an oil boiler. In this video, Kirsten and I sit down and discuss why…

It’s been a successful and fulfilling vegetable growing season for us, and it’s culminated with us harvesting our first ever pumpkins.

Maintaining the trees, shrubs and plants around our smallholding requires a lot of different cutting tools, so we were extremely pleased and excited when Darlac sent us three different loppers…

Kirsten has wanted a tipping cart for quite some time because they are more manoeuvrable and steady than wheelbarrows, so she was really excited to assemble and use the Draper…

Our first-ever vegetable and fruit growing season is coming to an end, and we get around to staking our apple trees and giving all our fruit trees an Ecoworm Soil…

We have received several questions lately about our air source heat pump consumption over summer so we pulled the data to answer this question.

We planted our Maris Piper seed potatoes in late April, and we were apprehensive that they would be affected by wireworms. In a bid to reduce wireworm numbers and diminish…

We have been wearing “normal” high street clothes to do our DIY, gardening and reno jobs in. I’ve been through multiple T-shirts and Kirsten ripped through a pair of jeans,…

With winter drawing closer, we undertook some required maintenance work on the exterior of our garden room, and finished it off by applying Zinsser All Coat Exterior Satin paint in…