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  • Making zero-waste, natural Christmas gifts

    by Kirsten 8 December 2021

    It’s time to start making some Christmas gifts. This year it’s really fun and super easy fizzy bath bombs from Aromantic. It’s a brilliant indoor activity which would be especially great …

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  • Handmade clay Christmas decorations

    by Mars 17 December 2020

    Kirsten has spent December transforming Home Farm into a Christmas wonderland with beautifully decorated garlands, wreaths and two Christmas trees. She even got around to making handmade clay Christmas decorations, …

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  • Built a large delivery and parcel box

    by Mars 24 May 2020

    As the lockdown continues with no obvious sign of when the Coronavirus drama will be over, we built a large delivery and parcel box because we’re going to increase the …

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  • Our first veg patch – part four – protective boxes and heavy duty trellises

    by Mars 10 May 2020

    Our veg patch project continues to forge on steadily. In this instalment we build our heavy duty trellises for runner vegetables along with protective boxes for our raised beds.

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  • Our first veg patch part three – rabbit proofing

    by Mars 29 April 2020

    In this instalment we make further progress on our raised beds and we get around to rabbit proofing our veg patch using chicken wire, which was a tricky and protracted …

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  • Filling our raised beds with soil and sowing our first seeds

    by Mars 25 April 2020

    Resuming from part one of our series, in this installment we’ve finished putting up the paling fencing, we fill the first raised bed with a mixture of compost and John …

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  • Make a simple doorstop – cheap and easy

    by Mars 25 April 2020

    Our backdoor has a latch that can keep the door wide open. When it’s windy or there are a lot of bees, wasps and insects around, you want to keep …

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  • Building our first ever veg patch from scratch – part one

    by Mars 18 April 2020

    Our path towards sustainability continues as we’ve embarked on building a fenced-in 9x9m veg patch. In part one of our video series on building our first ever veg patch from …

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  • Fully refitted and finished master bathroom

    by Mars 18 April 2020

    We finished refitting the master bathroom about six weeks ago, but we’ve been waiting for some small bits and pieces to arrive. Now that it’s all done, let’s check it …

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  • Making our compost heap

    by Mars 15 April 2020

    With the struggles of getting soil and other materials for our veg patch (courtesy of Coronavirus closures and disruptions) we turned our attention to making our compost heap.

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