05/01/17

Slow morning Between waking up at 4am and having a really good meal the night before this morning was a slow start. First thing was great as I sat reading how to remove Bamboo, watched tons of youtube videos about how to get the best results and ordered some root...

04/01/17

Yo! Wish for it Yesterday I said “all I need is a dry day” and boy did I get it! The weather was amazing, the was ground dry-ish and the grass dry enough to cut. Made tea for everyone at 9 a.m. and then got straight to it. (but need to think about 12V...

03/01/17

New year Will after a long wet streak the sun finally seam to be getting out and the property is in good health. The Deer are back and playing up as ever down at the back of the new bed the seam to have set up home. and their are dropping every where. so I have pulled...

Soil at Rudha Mor

The majority of the soil at Rudha Mor is peaty and highly acidic which means that finding a variety of plants that thrive is here is a challenge. We also have come to the realisation that in order to grow vegetables here that we will need to create raised beds with...

11/10/16

Lovely clear day in this immensely beautiful land! Got lots of jobs done, chopped wood, pruned trees around the back of the house and cleared the house lawns and drive of leaves.  As the leaf blower had turned up today this meant that a job that took 8 hours last...

15/10/16

Working on moving soil from the end of the garage to the vegetable patch which means we can make raised beds and then a shelter can be built for the digger in the space created. We filled the bed which we grew potatoes in earlier this year with some of the soil and...

27/10/2016

Collecting fire wood is a constant job and there are plenty of fallen trees around that need clearing so today started off with that job again. Not all of the work being done now is for winter, we are thinking forward to spring and have begun planting out 3000 bulbs...
26/10/2016

26/10/2016

Today was another wood cutting day with the weather finally turning to rain, got soaked from head to toe but managed to fell a whole fallen tree. Begin pushing back the edges of the meadow where the bracken was starting to creep in and opened up the join between...

13/10/16

As the seasons are changing it is time to turn our focus to filling up the wood shed and we are turning our focus on a  scost pine that fell last winter. The plan for chopping and removal is all about teamwork with me cutting the tree down into logs to be split, then...

10/10/16

The best part of the day was spent planning what needs doing in specific areas. It is becoming apparent that the more I have planned the easier it is to direct people when they come to help. A large part of the the day was also spent cutting down a tree that had been...