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  • Jobs on the Smallholding: January
    Life on the Smallholding

    Jobs on the Smallholding: January

    ByHeather January 21, 2025January 16, 2025

    Are you new to smallholding life, wondering how best to start the new year on your land? Or are you just keen to find out how smallholders keep themselves busy in the depths of winter? Here’s a little look at our jobs list for the month of January! January is a reasonably quiet month on…

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  • The unspoiled view across the green field of a smallholding.
    Life on the Smallholding

    How to Get Started on a Smallholding – Part One

    ByHeather January 14, 2025January 9, 2025

    Are you interested in becoming a smallholder? Would you like to find out what is involved in getting set up on a parcel of your very own land? Here is part one in a series intended to help you turn your smallholding dreams into reality! This post starts right at the very beginning, before you…

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  • New Year goals written in a notebook surrounded by festive Christmas decorations and twinkling lights.
    Home-making | Simple Living & Minimalism

    New Year’s Resolutions and Plans for 2025

    ByHeather January 7, 2025January 2, 2025

    It’s that time of year again already! As 2024 draws to a close, we are making plans for the year ahead and setting goals to help us get the very most out of the coming 12 months. Join me as I set out my new year’s resolutions and my intentions for 2025! I explored my…

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  • Piece of foiled Christmas wrapping paper on a compost heap.
    Food and Recipes | Simple Living & Minimalism

    Sustainability at Christmas

    ByHeather December 3, 2024December 2, 2024

    Christmas has become synonymous with excess and materialism in today’s society. And that sadly generates huge amounts of waste and a significant impact on the environment. Are you keen to strip consumerism out of the festive period? Would you like to shift the focus to quality time rather than meaningless gifts this Christmas? Here are…

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  • Dinner plates containing fish-less cakes and seasonal veg, positioned in front of a wood-burning range cooker in a farmhouse kitchen
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: How to Make “Fish-less” Cakes

    ByHeather November 26, 2024March 27, 2025

    Are you looking for simple, protein-packed, nourishing vegetarian dinner ideas? These fish-less cakes are delicious and full of goodness. They are sure to go down well with the entire family! These fish-less cakes are loaded with plant-based protein, iodine and other essential micronutrients. They are full of flavour with a wonderful contrast between the creamy…

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  • Two dinner plates pictured in a farmhouse kitchen before a woodburning range cooker. Each plate contains a serving of vegetarian mince and tatties with seasonal green vegetables.
    Food and Recipes | Home-making

    From Scratch Cooking: How to Serve Up Three Home-Cooked Meals Every Day!

    ByHeather November 19, 2024November 18, 2024

    Are you trying to fuel your family with healthy, home-cooked food? Are you wondering how to find the time to dish up three wholesome meals every day? Then look no further! Here’s how I manage it. Appraise Your Current Routine If you aspire to create three home-cooked meals every day, but you’re currently struggling to…

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  • Freshly baked sourdough bread and homemade almond croissants, on a cooling rack in front of a wood-burning range in a farmhouse kitchen
    Food and Recipes | Home-making

    Working Towards Self-Sufficiency: 10 Food Items I No Longer Buy

    ByHeather November 12, 2024November 8, 2024

    Are you trying to make more of your meals from scratch? Maybe you’re interested in producing your own food and eating more seasonally? Here on the smallholding, eating freshly prepared food, made with seasonal home-grown ingredients is the main objective! Home-grown, freshly cooked food tastes so much better, it creates very little waste and there…

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  • Two grey alpacas in a lush green field on a bright sunny day
    Animal Husbandry

    How to Take Care of Alpacas

    ByHeather November 5, 2024November 5, 2024

    Are you interested in keeping alpacas? Would you like to find out what is involved in taking care of them? Here’s a summary of everything you need to get started! Why Keep Alpacas? Guard animals Alpacas are excellent at protecting their territory from predators and other intruders. So, if you keep birds or small mammals,…

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  • A farmhouse kitchen. Dinner plates holding a home-cooked meal situated in front of a wood-burning range cooker.
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: Vegetarian Fruit and Nut Burgers

    ByHeather October 29, 2024October 31, 2024

    Are you looking for a quick and nutritious vegetarian dinner idea? Are you looking to pack some extra protein into your plant-based meal plan? Then these delicious “fruit and nut” burgers are for you! One of the biggest challenges about going plant-based was finding enough nourishing replacements for the standard “meat and two veg” British…

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  • Black Calculator Near Ballpoint Pen on White Printed Paper Planning Out Budget
    Simple Living & Minimalism

    How to Live on a Budget

    ByHeather October 22, 2024October 21, 2024

    Are you struggling to stick to your budget? Do you find yourself overspending each month? Here are the tactics I use to live on a fairly restricted budget. My decision to take an extended career break, to spend a little more time at home prioritising my family, has obviously impacted our household income. Even though…

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Hi, I'm Heather!

I am a busy wife, mother, smallholder, knitter and spinner. Join me as I share my tips for simple living, meals lovingly made with home-grown ingredients, and crafty home-making.

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