Sustainability

We are at a crossroads. We committed to going down the sustainability route when we moved into Home Farm, and one of the major upgrades was installing an air source…

In a word, yes. We’ve been using natural deodorants before eco, sustainable deodorants were even a thing. The problem with most natural deodorants is that they simply don’t work. They…

We’re approaching three years at Home Farm, and during this time it’s been very interesting to see how the weather patterns have differed from year to year. We’ve been paying…

We watched the Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday afternoon and fondly reminisced about our trip to Japan’s capital almost a decade ago. Of all the cities we’ve had the…

Over the course of June we received a number of questions and follow ups from readers asking about the performance of our Vortex home sewage treatment plant after we had…

In the weeks ahead we are going to replace all our plastic hose attachments to brass fittings from Darlac. We are waiting for a few more parts to arrive and…

The weather this year has been unstable, overcast, wet and cold. As the weather finally starts to improve and temperatures start to rise, it’s a good time to look at…

We recently mentioned that we had quite a lot of work done to get our air source heat pump central heating running more efficiently. Central to this work were the…

This winter was telling for our air source heat pump, especially after a bitterly cold spell in February, and the main area of concern was that the rooms to the…

Since starting My Home Farm, we have consistently grown our audience with people that are curious about sustainable, country living. Our air source heat pump and solar PV array has…