Waterloo Farm: a country living blog

Planting the Willow Coppice – Started!

Nigel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:32:42 +0000

At last after weeks of hard work and slog, and contending with snow and ice we can finally start planting up the Willow Coppice! It was as ever a family affair and the kids loved pushing the willow...

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Snow Causes Van to Crash Through Our Hedgerow

Nigel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:07:48 +0000

Thanks to blizzard conditions yesterday we had an unusual visitor to The Farm, attempting to arrive through our hedgerow! Fortunately no one was hurt, and it was brought to my attention by a queue of...

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Let The Willow Coppicing Begin

Nigel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:15:42 +0000

We have always aspired to recycle as much as we can and ideally be self-sufficient. We seem to have made a slow start on the latter, but at last our plan to create our own coppice to sustain us with...

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Ditch Widening (Pond?)

Nigel — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:09:56 +0000

Mr Liam Lambert was back on site…must stop calling our home a site! This time he was a week late as we had already shifted approx. 6-8 tons of sand and soil by hand (!) to make way for the...

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Homemade Bird Food and Feeders

Tammy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:22:31 +0000

One of the great things about living at Waterloo Farm is the variety of wildlife we get in the garden, and especially at this time of year, the birds. We always try our best to put food out for them,...

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Merry Christmas from All of Us at Waterloo Farm!

Nigel — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:20:38 +0000

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Plant a tree – set a new world record. It must be Tree O’Clock!

Nigel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:26 +0000

Do you want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records? Do you want to help improve the planet? Can you plant a tree somewhere? Then it must be Tree O’Clock! To support and promote national...

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Our Moben Kitchens Experience …

Tammy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:50 +0000

Followers of the Waterloo Farm Blog will know that we have spent considerable effort remodelling the house to create a space which will one day be a ‘family room’ incorporating a kitchen,...

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How to Plant Daffodil Bulbs by Tammy!

Nigel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:05:34 +0000

Tammy’s method for planting ‘lots of’ Daffodil bulbs: Get Husband to dig a big trench 3 times the depth of the bulbs Line bottom with sharp sand (helps with the drainage as...

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Garden Transformation: Part 3 – Ditch Filling

Nigel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:47 +0000

Well the last part of the weekend in August that we spent transforming the drive, and to some degree the garden, was spent levelling in the ditch. It is not clear from the pics, but there was a drop...

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