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Forest Garden

24th March 2010 By Ty Olaf Cottage

If you saw the TV programme “A Farm for the Future” a while ago, Rebecca Hoskins investigated the concept of the forest garden. In the programme she visited Martin Crawford’s Forest Garden near Cambridge and we saw what our garden could look like.

Haiti Hike

9th March 2010 By Ty Olaf Cottage

One of the man advantages of living in the valley is that there is a very active social club. The club organises the November 5th Bonfire and firework display, outtings, and events, and a children’s party.

Shopping in Rhayader

23rd February 2010 By Ty Olaf Cottage

You would be forgiven if your expectations of shopping in Rhayader were low. It certainly is quite a different experience to shopping in larger towns. We don’t have any of the big chains, but you may be pleasantly surprised by what is on offer.

Village Lighting
The Elan Valley became the first privately owned landscape to become part of the Dark Skies initiative. The area was well served as a natural area that could look up to a sky not too badly affected by light pollution. To make it even better our village lighting was changed. The old sulfurous lighting was […]
Coffee morning for the Bracken Trust at Ty Olaf, 3rd August 2019
What a brilliantly successful day! The culmination of two months of preparation and hard work. For Peter and Maggie Hussey, owners of Ty Olaf, it coincides with the harvesting of fruit from the garden, jam making and post Mid Summer hedge and garden tidying and pruning. For the Bracken Trust Social Committee it is […]
After a late start the Jam making gets underway
Normally fruit picking, mainly, to start, strawberries, making would be well underway by the second week in June. This year it was a rather late start when we produced our first 10 jars of jam, initially of blackcurrant. The tiny wild and alpine strawberries managed a showing, which will continue throughout the summer, and a […]
The Berghaus Dragon’s Back race at Ty Olaf
All sorts of busyness outside Ty Olaf this morning. We were reminded of the time a group of guys were unloading a van beyond the Visitor’s Centre. We were inquisitive and asked what was going on. “I can’t tell you” one of the workers said, “but its going to be epic. And it was. The […]
The antique French campaign bed
It has been a long job but, at last, the French bed is looking ready! We bought the bed in an auction, and couldn’t believe our luck in getting it for such a price. It is made of oak and created in such a way that it is a very early flat pack, made generations […]

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