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What I'm Working on This Month
by Erica Woman that farms
February – days are starting to get a little longer, the grounds still frozen and it feels very much like deep winter! But the world around us is...
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A Year of 28 Day Challenges
by Erica Woman that farms
Within my small circle of family and friends I’m fairly well known for regularly being outside of my comfort zone, over the past six years since I...
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The (Unexpected) Side Effects of being a smallholder
by Erica Woman that farms
People are often surprised when they visit my old farmhouse to find a host of modern things mixed in with all my old, antique items. My ultimate ...
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How I Learned To LOVE Winter
by Erica Woman that farms
When I moved to my first smallholding back in January 2003, we were a long way from “home” and what we’d been used to. I had two young children a...
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I Get Burnout too... This is how I deal with it.
by Erica Woman that farms
It's crap here! The weathers rubbish and I've had my first full day of winter routine which I've struggled with!
Mainly because I feel burnout cre...
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Self-Sabotage Almost Cost me Everything
by Erica Woman that farms
We all have times in our life when things don’t go to plan. It knocks our confidence and holds us back, but sometimes it can have other damaging ...
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Too Excited to Sleep
by Erica Woman that farms
I’m going to cut straight to the chase because I’m soooooo excited to tell you the news from the farm!
So, after a stressful September so far (and...
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The BIGGEST mistakes I've made (So far)
by Erica Woman that farms
Almost twenty years in, and if there’s a smallholding mistake to be made, believe me, I’ve made it.
I have an amazingly bad habit of taking on way...
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Is Smallholding Life Really the Simple Life?
by Erica Woman that farms
After almost two decades as a smallholder the one thing I prioritise is making my life as simple as possible.
life is hard enough - especially whe...
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When Being a Smallholder Makes You Lonely
by Erica Woman that farms
Living on my rural smallholding is Scotland is absolutely the best thing. I don’t have the usual things to worry about.. neighbours etc.
We have a...
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How I (DON’T) Do It All
by Erica Woman that farms
frequent comments on my social media are “how do you fit everything in” it’s the question I get asked most - after how do I make my living on my ...
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What Smallholding Really Costs
by Erica Woman that farms
When I moved to my first smallholding 18 years ago I was completely naive to what I was walking in to.
I’d moved my two children out to the countr...
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