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Hello everyone and happy weekend! We’re just pop

Hello everyone and happy weekend! We’re just popping on to share a few pics from today’s newsletter, which has just landed in inboxes. It’s a late spring issue filled with vegetable growing, cow parsley, and bean tops!

Just in case you haven’t heard us waffling on about it already, our newsletter is called The Seasonal Supplement. It comes out once a month and is free to subscribe to. In it we share lots of writing and photos about life on the smallholding, growing our own food, seasonal living, recipes, and self-sufficiency - much like we do here, but in way more detail and at a far gentler pace.

If you fancy a look you can sign up for free through the link in our bio or our story and have a read through today’s issue as well as all the past issues from the last eight months. We’d love to see you there!

It’s peak laying season and the mismatch of wood

It’s peak laying season and the mismatch of wood and wire racks in the kitchen are full to the brim with eggs. Together their shells form a rainbow of colour. Everything from darkest brown, brick red and terracotta, to pastel blue, sugared almond pink, olive, and powdered lilac. There are various shades of beige too, plus a pure chalk white. We’ve had to bring out reinforcements in the form of cardboard egg trays to manage the overspill.

We’ve been busy writing about some of the ways we use the egg glut, from making a super speedy mayo with the freshest eggs, to homemade pasta in bulk, and squirrelling eggs away in the freezer for winter. If you’d like to read all about it, we’d love to invite you to subscribe by clicking the link in our bio and story.

The biggest apple tree in the orchard towers over

The biggest apple tree in the orchard towers over the logstores and is home to a multitude of wildlife. It is quite something at this time of year, when blossom season is in full swing. This pic was taken a couple of springs ago before the tree lost two of its enormous branches during some windy, winter weather. This year it still looks beautiful but perhaps a little worse for wear. Fingers crossed it will still be here next spring.

Bees! We started keeping bees in the back garden o

Bees! We started keeping bees in the back garden of our flat in London over a decade ago (the hives were set up right next to our kitchen window so we could watch them coming and going from the comfort of the kitchen table).

They came with us when we moved to our smallholding here in Somerset and continue to be some of the most joyful and rewarding livestock that we keep.

We’ve written all about them in our latest post (link in story and bio). We cover everything from the story of how we got started with beekeeping to our ten top tips for budding beekeepers (from books to equipment to avoiding stings). It’s a long and detailed read that took us many hours (and many years of beekeeping experience) to put together, so it’s for our paid subscribers only, but there’s a free preview of the article that is open for everyone to read. If it piques your interest, we’d love to invite you to sign-up so that you can read the whole thing in full plus all our future weekly posts. The link is in our story and bio.

Making rustic plant labels from garden twigs. The

Making rustic plant labels from garden twigs. The super simple instructions are in this month’s newsletter, along with lots of other snippets of seasonal jobs, some seed sowing, and some cooking from the smallholding. You can read it all for free via the link in our bio or story.

If you do have a read of the newsletter, you’ll also see that we’ve just launched an exciting new paid subscription option. If you enjoy our writing and photos, would like to read more about smallholding and seasonal living than we have ever been able to share on these tiny insta squares over the last 6 years, and are keen to support our work so we can continue creating content in these spaces, we’d be delighted if you'd consider signing up.

A few joyful spring moments from the smallholding:

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