Brynich is a working farm with 40 acres of grazing land, split in two by Brynich Brook. We have recently turned one area over to growing vegetables (without the use of chemicals & pesticides) and are in the process of becoming more self-sufficient. In the future, we intend to grow seasonal vegetables that can be used by our guests in the holiday cottages and in the Play Barn - offering our smaller customers food that is packed with goodness.

Last year we built a cluster of four composting bins out of recycled timber and use all our own kitchen and farm compostables to feed it, along with hop waste kindly supplied by Breconshire Brewery. These all rot down and are put back on the ground to feed our vegetables.

This year Mark has planted one area with barley. We wanted to encourage seed feeding birds which are struggling in many parts of the UK. Hopefully this will go some way to helping.

Our good friends Sam and Brian now keep bees in the garden as well.
The old hen house renovation is currently on hold. It has fallen to the bottom of our 'to-do' list for now, but we will get there. In the meantime we are getting eggs from Simon (our Event Manager) who also lives at Brynich and has a healthy brood of hens. He has an honesty box outside his cottage so customers can pay him a visit if they want to try the eggs.

We have now completed the construction of our new shed - which will soon be the new home to our very old tractor. We wanted to avoid using lots of concrete and metalwork and so have opted for a timber framed building. We are really happy with the result and would reccommend 'Farm Plus' to anyone thinking of doing a similar build.

Next job on the ever increasing list is the green house.