Smallholding blogs links - The Accidental Smallholder

Blogs, online diaries and other personal smallholding sites. No commercial sites please.

Smallholding blogs

• Axe Head Farm - A Smallholder's Diary

  Building a smallholding out of nothing but 13 acres of bare fields.
  http://www.axeheadfarm.co.uk/

• Brixton's Bounty

  Concerning eating and drinking, cooking, growing, foraging and brewing. But mostly eating and drinking.
  http://brixtonsbounty.blogspot.co.uk/

• Doing It For Ourselves in Wales

  This blog is about our loony lifestyle of doing things for ourselves and not following the norm. We grow our veg, raise chickens, keep bees, collect from the hedgrows, make jams, pickles, preserve foo
  http://doingitforourselfs.blogspot.co.uk/

• Escaped to the Country

  In 2011 we moved to a small village in Lincolnshire. We bought a place with a small property, 2 acres of land, and various out-buildings. This site will document all the successes and failures as we g
  http://www.escapedtothecountry.com/

• Farm Spin Think

  Farming, handspinning, working collies and more from a grumpy old woman.
  http://sawp2013.wordpress.com/

• Gnomecorner

  Stories from a microholding. That's a smallholding that's REALLY small!
  https://gnomecorner.wordpress.com/

• Gribin Isaf

  Gribin Isaf is a space of three and half acres at an altitude of 900 feet somewhere in Montgomeryshire.
  http://www.gribinisaf.uk/

• Holding On

  A gentle look at life on our smallholding.
  http://holdingon4.blogspot.co.uk/

• Limes End Cottage

  Limes End Cottage is a new smallholding on the Buckinghamshire / Northamptonshire border. We moved into the cottage in June 2014 and since then have been very busy setting up everything thing we need
  http://www.limesendcottage.com/

• London to Land Girl

  We farm a three acre smallholding in Hampshire, England, having fled London in pursuit of the good life for our little family. We mess about with an assorted menagerie and try to be as self-sufficient
  https://londontolandgirl.com/

• My Overcrowded Garden

  Bits and pieces from my increasingly crowded garden. Including posts about growing fruit and veg, keeping poultry and pigs, homebrewing and who knows what else
  http://myovercrowdedgarden.blogspot.ie/

• New start, New life in Bulgaria

  Too many early mornings, stressful work environments and not enough quality time my husband and I decided to escape the rat race in the UK and move to Bulgaria in 2013 to live as self-sufficient lifes
  http://debrazzaman.blogspot.com/

• North Fife

  The rich rural scenery of North Fife, Scotland, provides variety from the historic city of St Andrews and the quaint harbours of the East Neuk of Fife.
  http://north-fife.blogspot.co.uk/

• Notes from a Suffolk Smallholding

  Notes and reflections from a smallholding in West Suffolk.
  https://notesfromasuffolksmallhoding.blogspot.co.uk/

• Offgrid-Online

  We decided to keep a Journal of our experiences and stories, on our journey to Self-Sufficiency.
  http://www.offgrid-online.co.uk/

• Our Good Life

  Six Oaks is our attempt at living the good life. My husband and I aren’t from rural backgrounds but we have felt a calling to this way of life and want our daughter to know where her food comes from
  http://goodlife.sixoaks.co.uk/

• Practically Grown Up

  Want to know what it’s really like to live and work on a smallholding? Then you’re in the right place. This isn’t “The Good Life”, this is real life – and if you ask me it’s all the bett
  https://practicallygrownup.wordpress.com/

• Shady Grove Farm

  Shady Grove Farm in the beautiful wilds of the Galloway hills in Scotland. Home to all creatures great and small from Shire horse to pygmy goats, you will find an array of happy, free ranging animals
  http://www.shadygrovefarm.co.uk/

• Small Plot, Big Ideas

  Recording progression from 3 small vegetable beds to a 15-acre property!
  http://smallplotbigideas.co.uk/

• Smallholding: Pleasure or Profit

  Daily updates from our South Norfolk Smallholding. Produce sold, failures and successes, achievements and disappointments, with fun thrown in too. Topics for discussion, tips and 'How to's', plus so
  http://smallholdingpleasureorprofit.blogspot.co.uk/

• Square Sparrow

  Freelance writer Square Sparrow lives on a rambling smallholding in rural Scotland with her husband (HunterGatherer) and, now and then, their three offspring.
  http://square-sparrow.com/

• The Cambridge Smallholding

  A registered smallholding in the centre of Cambridge (UK). We live with Tiberus and Sibelius the pygmy goats, Charles Ryder our grumpy rabbit and currently some unhatched but incubating eggs!
  http://cambridgesmallholding.blogspot.co.uk/

• The Chicken Whisperer

  Whispering. To chickens.
  http://www.thechickenwhisperer.co.uk/

• The Creative Croft

  Art and craft inspired by and created on a Shetland croft
  http://www.thecreativecroft.co.uk/

• The Soay Sheep Chronicles

  The joys of keeping small sheep in southern Oregon
  http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/