Autumn is a favourable time of year for the home brewer as hedgerows and gardens are swelling with such as abundance of berries and fruit that we would ought to preserve some of. In this video we’re showing you how to make your very own unique country wine capturing this growing seasons flavours in your […]
We were at the Athlone Apple Day last Sunday. It’s a harvest festival celebrating an abundant Autumn and bringing the community together to enjoy all things apples like juice and pies. We made this little video especially for those that couldn’t come along and to encourage an even better turnout next year. A big thanks […]
Homesteading and producing your own food can increase your quality of life and save you money. Come along and learn the basics of homesteading based on our personal experience gathered over 20 years. Please Book Now as Spaces are very Limited. Tickets are available below. Suitable for Beginners & Advanced Workshops: Growing Food using No […]
In this course we will teach you how to make your garden low maintenance and highly productive by working with nature using no dig.
The growing season is slowly but steadily coming to an end and while we’re enjoying the last breath of the Summer along with the plants in the garden, we are preparing for Winter. We are preserving the many bounties of the garden by drying, canning and fermenting. We’ve always had a keen interest in homesteading […]
A garden can provide you with harvests throughout the year, even after the abundance of the Summer months and later crops such as apples and pumpkins in the Autumn. There are plenty of vegetables available to harvest during the cold Winter months, some of which can still be sown now in September. Our favourite Winter […]
This week we took a more laid back approach to gardening and we left mother nature in charge while we took some days off to save seeds and start more berry bushes. It’s always amazing to see the flush of growth when coming back to the garden. In this weeks vlog we’ll be giving you […]
This week we’ve been getting into the swing of Autumn with the first of the tuber harvests, in this case the humble potato. We have also started some of our little preserving and homebrewing projects. Many more to follow in the next couple of months especially as bountiful harvests keep coming in from the garden […]
We are now starting and potting more plants for the remainder of August just to make the most of the growing season. In September and October we’ll be doing more homesteading jobs and preserving autumns bounty from the gardens. This week it cooled down a lot since last weeks heat wave and with that the […]
Join us for our first weekly No Dig Gardening Vlog. I’ll be walking around our gardens discussing our philosophies based on our years of experience with all it’s up and down, failed experiments and successes. Our conclusion is to simply let go of the perfect image of the garden and in the name of productivity […]