by Jane | Feb 15, 2019 | Willow
Ffynnon Beuno sits right at the foot of a valley with steep sides and Beuno’s little babbling brook dissects the land. The flow varies depending on how much water is draining down from the mountains above us and the land either side but the brook is never dry even in...
by Jane | Feb 10, 2019 | Bees and Honey
Before becoming a bee keeper, like most people I took honey for granted. An underwhelming sticky goo in squeezy bottles from the supermarket, I had tried it once and then carried on with granulated sugar. When I first started my training as a beekeeper, I met other...
by Jane | Feb 6, 2019 | News
Spring is in the air already, and we’re starting 2019 off with a bang by offering you the chance to win a completely free 2-night break for 2 people at our beautiful off-grid shepherd’s huts in North Wales, to take at any point in 2019. That’s right – we’re giving...
by Jane | Feb 4, 2019 | News
An Excerpt from HM Stanley’s 1909 Autobiography Chapter 2 – Adrift This chapter covers HM Stanley leaving the work house and living with his Aunt Mary at Ffynnon Beuno when it was a shop and a tavern. “Our tavern – kitchen on a Saturday night was a good school for the...
by Jane | Jan 26, 2019 | Bats
One of the many benefits of managing the land without chemicals is the huge abundance of biodiversity this encourages. In the warmer months, the fields are alive with the gentle hum and buzz of millions of insects going about their business and even in the colder...
