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Like many small-scale farmers around the developing world, most farmers in Thailand live their life on a knife edge. A failed crop can...
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the1treefarm
- Oct 16, 2021
- 2 min
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
Among our reasons for moving to the country was to have more time to do things we like doing. One thing Hana wanted to do more of is...
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the1treefarm
- Oct 10, 2021
- 3 min
Plastic People
Over the last few years lot of attention has been given to reducing our use of plastic, and rightly so. Thailand‘s retailers have taken a...
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the1treefarm
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
The world never stops moving
Seeing the same things every day can make it hard to see progress, and you tend to focus on the things that annoy you or the things that...
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the1treefarm
- Sep 18, 2021
- 3 min
Wild Life
It’s been a week dominated by animals, both inside and outside the house. From new-born babies and naughty teenagers, through to death,...
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the1treefarm
- Sep 12, 2021
- 3 min
Eight days a week
It’s a couple of months since we stopped the hustle and bustle of city life, although when we left lockdown curtailed any bustle or...
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the1treefarm
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
Food, glorious food!
You could be forgiven for thinking althat almost as soon as one meal finishes, plans begin for the next feed. Food revolves around so...
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the1treefarm
- Aug 22, 2021
- 4 min
Electric Dreams
When you build your house in a field the usual utilities are not a given, and it’s been no different for us. Water, gas, electricity and...
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the1treefarm
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
Growing pains
One the the biggest issues we face is deciding what we grow. In truth I think it's going to take a bit of time before we get it right....
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the1treefarm
- Aug 12, 2021
- 3 min
Remote control
As a kid I remember going to visit my gran. It was a two hour drive, mainly using single lane roads winding their way south from Glasgow....
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the1treefarm
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
A family affair
Setting up to live in a completely new place is never easy, but having family in the area can help. We live about 2km away from where...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Here comes the rain… again
It’s hardly surprising we have rain at this time of year. It is rainy season after all. What can surprise is how much rain can fall....
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the1treefarm
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
House photos
We’ve posted quite a few of these before, but never together. A collection of our new house and some of the characters around. When we...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 25, 2021
- 2 min
Are we being adopted?
Over the last six months we’ve discussed a lot of things about how we want to live when we move, but whatever you plan, sometimes the...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Planting ideas…
I need a bit of help with this one, especially among the green-fingered among you readers. Now the dodgy scaffolding, tins of paint and...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 18, 2021
- 2 min
Home run
About this time last year I remember suddenly thinking - what if I lose my job? I’d lost one at the end of 2019 and getting through that...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
Free trees start planting spree
Back in March, after we planted a mixed bunch of trees in front of the house, I’d read that different government organisations supported...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 13, 2021
- 2 min
Project one complete
We thought it would never end, but it seems like it’s done. After the builders left last week thinking the job was done we made a final...
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the1treefarm
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
We always knew building our own house would be a daunting task. Our time in Bangkok was always spent in rented accommodation, so if there...
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the1treefarm
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Taking shape
We’ve still got some work to do around the house and it’s not quite how we’d like it to look, and we’re still surrounded with builders...
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