Seashell Paths

Today we're making the most of the fantastic weather and are working on creating some paths and hard standing areas, in preparation for the winter months.

Shells are a great idea to use for this. They are a local 'end of life' product from a local producer. So you're recycling a local product and they sound great when you walk on them!

Ta da!! here's the first load in place. 

It is amazing how much lighter the area is. The shells reflect so much light upwards. 

Gammon, Bacon and maybe air dried ham.

This year seems to be flying by, I can't believe it's August already! It seems like just a few weeks ago that Martyn and I were saying that we'd like to try making some Gammon and possibly an air dried ham or two in the Summer... well, it's summer and time to make them! Our pig comes back from the butcher on Thursday and we'll start to prepare the meat to make, Bacon, Gammon and maybe a small aired dried ham. It'll be at least 6 months before we can try the ham!

Biker Boys

Here are our boys... being boys. We've sent this off to You've Been Framed! The boys love the programme and have said that they would love to send a video in one day. Lets see if they get on the telly :)

Pedigree Welsh Pigs Feeding

These are two of our Pedigree Welsh gilts eating at the ad-lib feeder. By having these feeders the pigs are never without food and can eat whenever they are hungry. This also helps the smaller pigs in the group to get the food they need without being pushed out by the more dominant ones.

Pork Recipe for July

For all you lovely customers coming to collect your Pork on Thursday 12th of July, we'll have another Pork recipe card waiting for you.

This months pork recipe, supplied by www.marmaladecookeryschool.co.uk will be for Piri Piri Belly Pork... YUMMY!

We asked Tatiana (from Marmalade) to design a recipe for use on the BBQ, thinking it would be July... ahem... well, good job it works just as well in the oven too!

New Lleyns added to the flock

A BIG Ty Siriol welcome to... Gladys, Bronwen, Megan & Dilys!! 


These are the latest edition to the Ty Siriol clan. These are 4 Pedigree Lleyn Ewes, these girls are breeding stock and will hopefully be with us for many years to come (so I'm allowed to give them names!) 


We brought the girls home on Monday from Bolgoed Farm, Pontardulais. They settled in to with the others in no time at all. Pat, one of last years lambs with her own lamb at food this year, has really taken to these girls and has taken them under her wing, so to speak. 

I'm going to miss this little guy :(

After experiencing sending lambs off to slaughter for the first time earlier this year and crying endlessly for a month. I decided that it would be a better idea not to get attached to these beautiful little creatures in the future and definitely not to name any animal that was destined for the freezer... 


Well... this picture is a self portrait of Tarquin and I earlier this week. Yes, I know. I'm attached and he has a name... it's not exactly gone to plan. 


Tarquin was the last lamb to be born this year, he arrived 3 weeks after the others had been born so we had assumed his Mum (Pat) wasn't in lamb herself. He was born in an awful storm on a Sunday morning and after getting soaked and been pounded by hail stones, he gave up, laid down and wouldn't feed from his Mum. Pat was desperate for this little guy to feed and survive (and so were we). We brought them both into the stable and we ended up having to milk Pat every two hours and force feed Tarquin for about 24 hours. Pat was awesome and let us do whatever we needed to do. At last, at about 4.30am he decided to feed from his Mum all by himself and thrived from that moment onwards. He's just as big as the others now.


I guess because we were around Tarquin a lot in the first 72 hours of his life, he's very used to us and would still wander up to us in the field. This turned in to him having a scratch on his head and now he runs up to me for a cuddle and a scratch. He's so affectionate and has a huge personality!


BUT... I know he has to go. It's not going to be easy to say 'goodbye' to this little guy :(