Nearly everyone loves pizza and making your own oven makes it that bit more special. You can buy an oven for thousands but it’s much more fun to make your own, using materials lying around and with minimal impact on the earth. Here’s how we made our oven in the garden, all for under £20. Read more…
NEW DUCKLINGS AND A CHICK We have some new faces at Kents, Debbie the duck who we hatched ourselves in an incubator has become a first time mother! She spent 1 month in the bushes and surprised us all when she led 5 healthy ducklings to water 1 day earlier Read more…
The chickens now have a new ‘tree house’ home out in the Orchard. The house is built up on legs with a rickety ladder. The idea being that the chickens can go up and down but a fox can’t. So they will be able to come and go as they Read more…
We’ve planted all the trees. Thanks so much to all our friends, family and our lovely volunteers, we couldn’t have done it without you! Now they all need mulching, staking and tree guards. We’ve planted 100 oak, plus maple, sweet chestnut, walnut, silver birch, scots pine, blackthorn, hazel, crab apple, Read more…
We’re super excited to be featured in this season’s issue of Permaculture Magazine. The article is all about how we designed and built our wood fired rocket stove hot tub! With full instructions on how to build your own. You can donwload it or order a copy here.
Here are our newly rescued ex-battery hens, thanks to the Hens Welfare Trust. Looking a bit mangey but hopefully they’ll soon recover and be ready to go outside for the first time The factory farms ‘dispose’ of the hens when they are a year old as they become less than Read more…
