Hello fellow steemians, this being my first post I thought I should introduce myself and talk a little about the content I plan to upload. My name is Huw and I live with my beautiful family in the equally beautiful rural and rainy mid Wales.
I suppose my main interests lie broadly in sustainability and self sufficiency, I love the idea of having the knowledge to be able to produce most of what is needed for life from the basic raw materials from scratch, learning new skills and methods along the way and a lot of trial and error. I am constantly fascinated by nature and it’s great efficiency and connectivity and try to channel that in my projects.
We have recently moved and after several years trying to squeeze as much out of a small, steep and stony town garden we now have a whole acre to play with. A lot of the hard work we put in in our old garden was lost, either because we were not physically able to bring some plants with us, they died along the way or were mistaken for rubbish when we were setting up at our new property and taken away by some over eager bin men! But with our glass half full view on the situation it provides an opportunity for a fresh start and a rethink of our goals.
At the moment we have a few happy chickens and three very noisy ducks who have the run of the whole acre and we plan to increase our poultry flock over the course of this year. I am also a very keen beekeeper and we have 4 colonies of honeybees holding on at the end of a very wet Welsh winter and waiting eagerly for spring to bring its many colourful blooms and hopefully some better weather. We plan to dedicate a large part of our land to the production of fruit, vegetables, salads and herbs as well as a range of native wildflowers to bring in a wide range of insects and wildlife as well as providing a delicious meal for our bees.
All of these plans and projects will form the bulk of the material that I plan to post about as well as some other related interests such as cooking, and craft. I am very much new to a lot of this so I will be learning as I go and I hope you will enjoy watching the process and progress. I am always open to hints and advice so please pitch in with any information you think may be helpful and I can test things out to see what works best.
I would like to post a video soon showing the land as it is now and outlining our plans and how we hope to achieve them.
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