Our biggest project to date.

We started this job the first week of January 2025 and worked on it until mid March. The project is on-going with plenty more to come!

So far, we have developed a 150 metre ‘dead hedge’ with a berm featuring hundreds, if not thousands, of willow whips. This creates a natural barrier for the wind coming from the farmer next door’s field. The willow can also be coppiced to create more interesting natural features on the Homestead in the future. The wood creates tonnes of biomass, firewood, animal feed and future building material.

We’ve also created a 100 meter wildflower meadow that is due to blossom later this year, as well as building an outdoor mushroom fungarium by repurposing felled Alder logs on the land. These logs are perfect to inoculate to grow Shiitake mushrooms and Oyster mushrooms, which are now in production for Autumn. This is the biggest outdoor mushroom inoculation I have done to date and I’m excited for the outcome.

Our goal for this project was to make it feel like a wonderland, so we made the area feel ethereal by adding unique features, like gates and fencing made from logs and sticks from the felled trees, as well as log walls sitting in-between triangular sleepers. The benefit is that these can also double up as a habitat for wildlife.

The area for food growing is made up of raised sleeper beds for easy growing access and to create a higher picking level to create less stress on the client’s back. We also added two arches as the client wanted to grow some hops to add a nostalgic smell from their childhood to the garden. Hops are an excellent climber with aroma, great for wildlife and making beer if you wish to. These beds will grow lots of salad, root vegetables, herbs and medicinal flowers, right by the back door for easy access.

The final project on this homestead was a huge chicken coop that can host up to 24 chickens. This is the biggest woodworking project we’ve done to date, it took two weeks of building this enormous coop, complete with laying boxes and a huge outdoor area for the chickens to use during the day, for foraging and playing.

This project is on-going with more fruit trees to be planted in the agroforestry area,  wildflowers to bloom, bees for honey and more trees to create more habitat, as well as privacy from neighbours. 

Excited to see future movements on this space.