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Our potato growing is on a much smaller scale this year.

Small-scale tattie planting

20 April, 2012 by Stonehead 2 Comments

We’ve cut our potato planting severely this year as, thanks to my broken wrist, we haven’t been able to prepare the fields for planting. Instead, we’re focusing on new potatoes as they’re more expensive in the shops and we can choose varieties that we prefer. We’re planting four beds of first and second earlies in […]

Gardening, Vegetables

Crofting, Frugal Living, Gardening, postaweek2012, potatoes, Smallholding, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Vegetables

Never-ending maintenance

15 September, 2011 by Stonehead 8 Comments

Weather and animal feeding aside, one of the most constant features of crofting is the never ending round of maintenance tasks. At present, I’m refurbishing the farrowing pen in the byre. The sows dig out the lime mortar and eat it. The sows and piglets pound the creep and trough until their bolts pull out […]

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

Crofting, Frugal Living, Pigs, postaweek2011, Simple living, Smallholding, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency

Nosing into compost buckets

13 September, 2011 by Stonehead 4 Comments

A survey has discovered that slop buckets, or compost buckets as we know them is this household, don’t smell. Well, doh, that’s obvious. It’s the contents that smell! Even then, it’s only if the bucket is badly managed and not emptied often. More seriously, though, I was interested to read that many people waste just […]

Environment, Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency

Compost, Environment, Food, Food waste, Frugal Living, postaweek2011, Zero waste

We were right, cars are out

28 August, 2011 by Stonehead 10 Comments

Who’d have thought, when we sold our second car back in 2006 and replaced it with a trike, that a family of mad, grungy and slightly disreputable crofters were well ahead of a social trend? As it turns out, we were. Apparently, one in five British households are getting rid of second cars to save […]

Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Transport

Cycling, Frugal Living, postaweek2011, Transport

Downsides to home-grown vegetables

19 September, 2010 by Stonehead 5 Comments

Really fresh, pesticide, herbicide and fungicide free vegetables grown to organic principles are all very well but there are definite downsides to eating your own produce. A curry made with spinach has an interesting, crunchy texture thanks to the odd piece of grit. The boys find it quite diverting when an earwig bolts out of […]

Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency

Daily life, Frugal Living, Gardening, organic, Vegetables

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