Behind with the blog

A number of people have emailed to asked why I haven’t updated the blog for more than a week.

The fact is that I have half a dozen draft entries saved, but the pressures of work on the croft have meant that they haven’t been finished and posted.

I’m going to try to get some of them finished in the next day or two, and post them so people can see what we’ve been up to, including the arrival of our latest pigs.

So stay tuned - and hope that I can get slightly on top of the workload!

Cider making

We’ve been picking, sorting, chopping, pulping and pressing apples all day as our cider making gets started.

By the time we finished to do the evening chores and have dinner, we’d filled one fermenting vat with a little over five gallons (25 litres) of apple juice pressed from 70kg of apples.

We only have another six 25kg bags of apples to go…