Our New Life in the Country: Off to market.....

Sunday 10 July 2011

Off to market.....

In ten minutes we are off to the Farmers Market in our lovely little village hall. The hall comes to life with the smell of bacon butties cooking, cups of coffee and tea are drunk and a there's time to read the morning papers in the little 'tearoom' corner. A very civilised way to start a Sunday.

Today we are taking the first of this years Lavender harvest. Picked two weeks ago and dried in the nicest place.....

...over the Aga. Why is it the nicest place....well it means the scent of the lavender is wafted all over the house and fills the rooms with a calming relaxing scent, that just takes all the stress out of what were up to at the moment.

The last harvest is coming with us today, along with our Free Range Eggs and some more blocks of my lovely handmade soaps, and for the first time our new line....Pickled Pekin Eggs, the girls have done us proud.

Now there is a second batch of lavender drying over the Aga so the house still smells gorgeous.

Have a lovely Sunday.

Sue xx

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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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