Part of the idea of moving to the country was to be able to source our food and produce from local suppliers or ideally from our home grown land and stock. We started with the honey and have now moved to getting our firewood from a local source. Our neighbour.Or... If you want to protect your hard work, and your house and garden, much needs to be done to basset proof it. Of course it’s also important for their own health and safety.After putting so much effort into planting the new flower beds around the house it was... It is starting to feel like the house is really putting down roots now and becoming part of the landscape. We don’t quite stick out like the sore thumb we did when the build was under way and with the surrounding landscape in the bloom of early summer it looks... Regular blog readers will know that there are all sorts of exciting things we experience living in a rural area. One of which is having a rural water supply.What this means is we collect the rain from the roof, fill the tank and then pump it back into the house via a... My parents project since they’ve arrived is to help turn the landscape planting plan into a reality. We’ve been cruising to nurseries and the internet to find the array of plants specified in the plan.Having tracked down about 100 plants then the challenge... 