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  • What do you do in winter when the Food Forest is dormant?

    by Deborah Butterfield
    What do you do in winter when the Food Forest is dormant? You go exploring! And we've been lucky enough to go to France and check out a whole lot o...
    Posted in Food Forest, Food Forest Visitors

  • Deb in action!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    Posted in Food Forest

  • Autumn Asters!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    You know it's Autumn when the Asters get going! Very pretty clouds of beautiful blue flowers- enjoyed by us, and probably more so by the bees! Such...
    Posted in Autumn;, Edible flowers, Food Forest

  • Well underway with tomatoes!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    Well underway with tomatoes! Every year I collect the tomato seeds, sow them in spring and then look forward to what grows. Always fun to see all t...
    Posted in Farm shop, Food Forest, Preserves, Tomato, Vegetables

  • A luscious pair of pears!

    by Deborah Butterfield

    Pears are starting to ripen in the Food Forest

    Posted in Farm shop, Food Forest, Pear

  • Lovely Farmstay Feedback!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    Sharing a lovely letter that we got from one of our guests not long ago: "Greeting to you both and best wishes for 2026. I came with my brother...
    Posted in Food Forest, Food Forest Visitors, Food Forest Walk

  • Caught looking gorgeous!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    Caught looking gorgeous- the nest, the old willow fence, and the berries. Hidden away in the Kitchen Garden section of the Tinui Food Forest. One o...
    Posted in Food Forest, Kitchen Garden

  • Canadian Elder and Visitors!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    Canadian Day today! I had the pleasure of guiding a couple of Canadian visitors through the Tinui Food Forest- and in between swapping stories of w...
    Posted in Elderflower, Food Forest, Food Forest Visitors, Food Forest Walk

  • Baby Chickens and Guinea Fowl Everywhere!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    10 baby guinea fowls hatched! And the proud mother of 9 of them? Meet our lovely Mabel Chicken. Mabel sat determinedly on the eggs for around 3 wee...
    Posted in Food Forest, Guinea Fowl

  • TrailorGate!

    by Deborah Butterfield
    I'm calling this "TrailorGate". Not bad for an old trailor cage eh? Now that the climbing roses are making a start at actually climbing- well I thi...
    Posted in Food Forest, Food Forest Walk, Kitchen Garden, Re-purposing

  • Hooray for Hazels!

    by Deborah Butterfield

    Hazel trees are amazing in the Food Forest!

    Posted in Food Forest, Food Forest Walk, Hazel

  • Multi-Layered Growing

    by Deborah Butterfield
    The all important multi-layered approach to growing a Food Forest! Pictured here is a row in the Tinui Food forest Kitchen Garden area showing all ...
    Posted in Food Forest