The magic number
The family house is right in the centre of the nearby village. If you imagine a number 8, like you’d see on a digital watch, the house is...
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the1treefarm
Nov 24, 20214 min
Harvest moon
The pace of life is different in the Northeast of Thailand, but it can be surprising. Often things tend to move very slowly, and then...
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the1treefarm
Oct 31, 20216 min
The Marshall Plan
It's been a long time coming but we've finally devised something that approaches a plan. The thing with a plan, as with almost anything...
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the1treefarm
Oct 19, 20213 min
Let’s talk about debt, baby
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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20214 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, 20211 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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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