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castle wood social croft

Crofting activiTIes

Dairy Activities*
Milking
Cheesemaking
Butter churning
Feeding
Mucking out
Grooming
Fencing

Poultry Activities
Collecting eggs
Packaging eggs and selling them
Feeding hens and ducks
Providing drinking/swimming water for ducks
Letting hens and ducks out
Cleaning housing

Pig keeping
Feeding
Providing water
Cleaning out housing
Cutting grass prior to electric tape going up.
Fencing

Bee Keeping
Honey spinning
Collecting larch needles for smoker
Putting wax into the melter
Making up frames
Watching bees in the perspex hive
Making up feed solution
*Because health and safety are paramount at Castle Wood, we cannot permit the consumption of any dairy produce that we make. Our milk is unpastuerised and we do not currently have a designated dairy area that has been inspected. The dairy production is to learn the processes and equivalent items are purchased to experience the flavours. We do cook and eat the eggs, vegetables, honey and meat from our croft on site. Beekeeping can similarly carry the risk of bee stings which some are allergic to so beekeeping activities are limited to non contact.
All of our Crofting Activities are interlinked with Our Crafting Activities. Our growing feeds back into our animal feeding and into our cooking and preserving. We find a symbiosis in all of our activities that help us find our place in nature.

HOlistic Crofting
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