Not the River Cottage

Yes - my imaginative title says it all. I have (successfully) smoked some bacon. Huzzah! My cold smoker cabinet was built from odds a...

So the last set of pigs, a pair of Tamworths, finished at the end of last year and went to the local abattoir. My dad helped me butcher the...

Ah another game in the campaign after a rather long gap. As seems to be the case the ubiquitous "life" manages to get in the way....

This weekend marked another first for me, and that is the beginning of a flock of sheep! We selected a black Shetland ewe with her first ew...

Got our new pigs two weeks ago/ They've had two weeks inside getting accustomed to us and trained to come running when I shake a bucket...

I picked up some Amera terrain off eBay a while back, a decent number of river sections and a moorland pond piece. Before plunging in and ...

An attempt at some cabbages or similar plant type thing! I realised too late that I haven't taken photos of the intermediate steps but ...