Tyddyn Y Coed

This is the story of our small holding, sustainable tree nursery, farm living and adventures.

21/07/2026

We're safe, but being 1ha from an 80ha fire is unnerving. We are very very grateful for the diverse habitat between us and the common.
Also for the incredible fire fighters, and the commoners (local farmers and graziers have all been trained in managing moorland fires on the common) who have been there for nearly 48hrs now 🙏🙏🙏

29/06/2026

🌳 It's nearly time 🌳
Our Open Day is almost here, and we'd love to see you there! Come along to learn more about our work, meet the team, and find out how we're working with farmers to help restore our beautiful landscape.

If you've been meaning to book there's still time to reserve a free ticket: https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/summer-open-day

Come for the cake and take time just to be with the trees

Dod yh ôl at fyi nghoed

We hope to see you there! 💚

28/06/2026

Take the time to stop and stare...
We haven't updated recently with so many jobs on, but the extreme heat has forced us to slow down.
The trees have been a complete blessing and we are growing more, learning about what the land needs. This is a lifetimes work...
But the burnet moths, the Geese and the Roe don't care. They take it one day at a time, and sometimes so should we.
Future orchard pasture
Six spotted Burnett moths
And their caterpillars
Birds foot trefoil
The agricultural museum aka hedge beast
Geese and Oak

02/06/2026

The menagerie are doing well, enjoying the cooler weather, sunshine and showers this week.
Hot damp weather is the prompt to shear the sheep and we'll be on it this weekend. The Geese just trundle along, doing what they do.

These guys are all part of the circular approach but at the moment it's the shelter from the trees that is really shining it, during the hot weather and the rain.

30/05/2026

A little tree nursery update from us
It's been a bit quiet as my phone died and I took the opportunity of a break whilst transferring onto a new phone! Back now but probably still intermittent whilst getting on top of the growing season..
The Sweet Chestnut are fabulous but the Mulberries still need work...

15/03/2026

What a weird weekend 🙈🤣🤦‍♀️
It's been glorious and it's snowed...
We've had animal chaos and happy sunbathing beasties
We've got a ton of prep done for the tree nursery, but I could do with a few days off before Monday 🙈
I'm going to put it down to a mad March and keep smiling. At least it's all meant to be a bit nuts this month right?!
Hope you had a good weekend (and a less chaotic one)

08/03/2026

Mulberry seedlings 🌱 ♥
Our air prune beds were far more successful than the polytunnel trials, which suits the 'lose the plastic' approach we want to be honest, but I was prepared for a greenhouse in case the extra warmth was beneficial.
Slugs and wees just out did the seedlings in the ground despite the extra warmth. However, even after just 10months the rots were pretty impressive.
I had to lift these out of the germinating bed, so they've gone out to the field beds and 🤞🤞 we'll see how they do.
The seedlings in the air prune bed will tested out as well, but I'll leave half a bed undisturbed despite being very densely sown and again, we'll see how they go...

24/02/2026

Working on our tree nursery field beds.
This is really stage 2 as the germinating / propagation stage is in the air beds - to be explored later in the spring when we're sowing seed again. But this is how the calendar year works, the mulch on these beds (already well rotted down wood chip) needs a bit longer to sink in before we're sowing. Although fingers crossed the saplings will be in in the next couple of weeks.
No plastic so HARD WORK but hopefully worth it 🙏
Multiple layers going down to build these up slowly.

(ish)

With .harris

22/02/2026

Peeling chestnut posts seems like a weird extra step when you're getting all your foundation fences up and it's a lot to do..
But it's not because peeled posts are pretty (they are, but I love bark on just as much)
It's putting a little hope in the extra work now getting us an extra year later.
Sweet Chestnut bark hosts a wonderful selection of little critters, and we don't want them eating their way out of our posts!

19/02/2026

Kane's full-time job is as a rather excellent mobile mechanic. He works locally from his van and that means he's spent the most awful winter on a variety of hard surfaces (or small rivers) underneath cars in all weathers.
Hay is all on the balcony of our neighours barn, which is a bit high for me to reach, so despite it meaning starting the day with cold feet that's first job of the morning...
Honestly ❤❤❤🙏
Waters done, birds are fed, sheep are happy, both off to work now.. even tiny farms are hard... but incredibly satisfying. And it only works because we're a team ❤

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Tyddyn Y Coed
Abergavenny
NP79LB

Website

http://www.tyddynycoed.co.uk/

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