Finding our feet around a new abode.

So we’ve been here for about 2 weeks.

Finding our feet around the property and local area.

Working in the garden and on the land, making and fixing stuff on a daily basis.

The hours fly past the things to do and jobs around the land creates a on going list.

At present we are limited to amount of things we do, as we are still here on the caretakers agreement.

It’s quite annoying that it took so long to be able to agree us moving in because this meant the planting season for veg was slowly passing us by and we would be in the property to late for growing veg this year!!

This is not a great started as one of our aim s very high on the list is to grow food. Fill the land with vegetables as much as we can physically do and maintain as a family.

Reasons for growing vegetables!

If I grow food on my land it travels no air miles to me. I also don’t drive my own car to a store and pollute the environment in doing so.

No petrol is also cheaper for me.

My weekly bills on food should in time go down once I’ve established my growing of veg.

I’ve never been able to afford organic in a store and even the normal weekly vegetable and fruit bills have been getting hard for us to pay.

I don’t want to buy affordable junk unhealthy food for my son and family! Because they are more affordable we want to be healthy and have a healthy child with a good start in life.

Therefore growing my own I can make sure it’s healthy organic foods.

If foods in stores become totally unaffordable in future or if stores run low on foods due to maybe less planes and deliveries or other world issues.

I will always have some land to prove and protect our family.

When I’m older my son will have learnt the dieing art of growing food!so he will know how to look after himself and not really on corporations and stores to solely feed him. Which sadly alot of children within school do not learn as a subject.

The generation of parents are also so busy working 9 to 5 and alot also do not have this knowledge to past onto their children.

Alot have no idea how to grow vegetables and kids think you just get it from a shop.

These reasons are very important to us.

So because we ended up here late in growing season this year its going to not pan out quite as well as we had hoped. However we can try our best.

Growing on the land will not be so easy in late season.

However the polytunnels will hopefully be able to grow alot of salad and green vegetables which can be grown even into late November if we study it abit more and give it ago.

So this week one of the things we’ve done is make 3 low covered tunnels for mainly bassicas, sprouts Kale chard and some beetroot.

It will be fingers crossed due to time of year.

Next week will start to make some.

No dig.

Beds in one of the polytunnels for autumn winter veg.

😊👍👍.