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Beg box week 17 Cabbage, carrots, chard, mange tout, potatoes, pakchoi and salad bag #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #organic #vegbox #vegetables #farm #freshfood #localfood #seasonalfood

We’re going to be back on the telly tonight for the third and final visit to the Tap by the Beechgrove Garden. 7pm, BBC 2 Scotland. Here’s an awesome aerial shot that George the cameraman got for us. #bbcscotland #tv #television #beechgrovegarden #permaculturedesign #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #landscapedesign #organicgardening #vegbox

We’re accumulating a great amount of tree brash to feed to the goats. It’s piled up outside their byre where it can be taken in every day and push into the purpose built goat feed shoot ( hole cut in pallet wall with chainsaw) so they can munch away. The tree fodder in suspended off the ground offering a more natural browsing height for the goat. When the goats are finished stripping off the leaves we are left with a bunch of future fire kindling. The bundle is pulled out of the feed shoot from the outside and left on a pile to season. #permaculturedesign #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #homestead #communitysupportedagriculture #goats #building #firewood #organic #livestock

Break on through to the other side. We’re working on connecting different areas of the farm for better ease of moving animals and more efficient time management. Here we have cut through a 50 year old plus beech hedge to make a passage way from our back door/kitchen garden to the goat byre. Lots of brash for feeding the goats. #permaculturedesign #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #homestead #communitysupportedagriculture #goats #landscapedesign #chainsaw #organic #selfsufficient

Veg box week 16 This week you’ll find a free food/gardening book in your box. Local Rhynie based charity Books Abroad have kindly given all our CSA Members a free book to enjoy or swap. Carrots, lettuce, celery, potatoes, kale, beetroot, spring onions and parsley #vegbox #organic #communitysupportedagriculture #csa #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #homestead #permaculture #books #charity #scotland #farm

Goat cuddles and listening to the rumen doing its thing. #milkinggoats #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #milk #goats #dairy #rawmilk #communitysupportedagriculture #csa #selfsufficient #smallholding #homestead #familyfarm

I’m on milking duty while Tap Farm’s @rosabevan is down south visiting family. Here’s a flashback to Rosa milking earlier in the summer, juggling problematic udders and hyper newborn kids. I’ve seen her go from jumping in the deep end learning by having to milk for the first time ever in deep snow by torch light to where she is now - taking it all in her stride, balancing daily milking/goat chores, a market garden enterprise plus all the rest that comes with living on the land. Learning to milk as I have done in the past week has just solidified my absolute respect for this strong, determined, caring (and mega hottie) dairy woman that I share my life and farm with. Please come home, my hands hurt 😉🐐 #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #goats #milking #dairy #rawmilk #farmlove #farmers #csa #communitysupportedagriculture #milkmaid #womenwhofarm

The mushroom cultivation course participants helped inoculate many logs with shiitake and oyster spawn which will hopefully be fruiting in the near future. #sustainablefood #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #mycelium #mushroomcultivation #mushrooms #shiitake #shiitakelogs #organic #foodproduction

Day two of our Mushroom Cultivation course with Ann Miller and we’re in the market garden inoculating wood chip in the forest garden tree rows with various mushroom mycelium. #mycelium #mushroom #mushroomcultivation #forestgarden #orchard #permaculture #aberdeenshire #marketgarden #organic #workshop

Learning the production methods for shiitake mushroom cultivation. #mushroomcultivation #ediblemushrooms #shiitake #mycelium #aberdeenshire #permaculture #marketgarden #selfsufficient #sustainablefood

Our mushroom cultivation weekend with Ann Miller is underway - learning all about the various different mushrooms that can be grown. #mushroom #cultivation #permaculture #marketgarden #localfood #mycelium #shrooms #ediblemushrooms #shiitake #fungi #education #learning

#csa veg box week 15 Cabbage, carrots, beets, broccoli, beans, chard and salad. #vegbox #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #organic #farm #localfood

Fantastic third and final visit from #bbcscotland Beechgrove Garden film team. Thank you Carol, Clare, Bob and George - you were great at keeping us chill and making the farm look brill. And thanks to mum Reid for helping keep everyone fed as well as all the other things you do! This episode should air in two weeks. #vegbox #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #bbc #tv #ontelly #scotland

Beechgrove is back! The BBC Scotland team are back filming their third visit to the farm. Filming in 25c weather in the tunnel - extra hot with the reflector board shining on us! #bbc #bbcscotland #beechgrovegarden #tv #televisionprogram #vegbox #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #organic #

Everyone says broccoli gives you wind. Tap Farm’s @rosabevan managing that ‘just stepped out of a salon’ look in gale strength winds. #windy #fartjoke #vegbox #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #organic #womenwhofarm #farming #farmer #aberdeenshire #smallholding #homestead #selsufficient #sustainableagriculture #organicfarming #seasonalfood #beautiful #polytunnel #hill #taponoth

Polytunnel clear up - old crops out, new ones in. #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #polytunnel #vegbox #csa #smallholding #scotland

Heading out to fill a harvest bin. #permaculture #marketgarden #vegetables #communitysupportedagriculture #csa #vegbox #smallholding #farm #organic #vegetablegardening #garden

Veg box week 14 Carrots, beetroot, potatoes, courgette, kale, radishes, spring onions and salad bag. #marketgarden #communitysupportedagriculture #permaculture #organic #vegbox #vegetables #seasonal #homegrown

We’re losing our marbles processing all the fruit we’re harvesting right now. That’s not why we’ve gone quiet here though - we’ve gone and done an Instagram takeover of the @landworkersalliance so if you’re missing our posts head on over to the LWA and follow them to see what we’re doing this week. In the meantime, here’s James fondling his plums. #instagramtakeover #permaculture #marketgarden #organic #farming #vegbox #aberdeenshire #fruit #orchard #communitysupportedagriculture #selfsufficient

We’ve been invited to do a takeover of the @landworkersalliance Instagram so be sure to check out their profile and follow our going’s on there for the next week. #landworkersalliance #instagramtakeover #csa #csafarm #communitysupportedagriculture #marketgarden #permaculture #ukfarming #organic #ecological #peasantfarmers #scotland

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