News
3rd August 2016
And still no rain! All the more ironic in that the flooding in our neighbour’s field turns out to be the main water pipe to the […]
27th July 2016
The tractor has been mended & we're making jam!
20th July 2016
The tractor was useable again and the topping programme was continued – the tractor had sat in a field for four days with a puncture last […]
11th July 2016
I am currently reading the July chapter of Meadowland by John Lewis-Stemple – a book I happily recommend to all interested in the environment. The author […]
30th June 2016
I am writing this on the 29th June. Politics is not something I normally comment upon but the decision of last week to leave the EU […]
21st June 2016
A rather mixed week here in the farm. We have of course been pleased to have the rain together with enough warmth to keep the pastures […]
13th June 2016
A week of sunshine and strangely high temperatures which, with little rain, has meant for this farm the pastures are cracking as the clay dries out […]
6th June 2016
As I write this the sun we have at last seen off the grey skies which seem now the norm for every morning. It has been […]
31st May 2016
Apart from a torrential downpour in the early hours of Saturday morning we have had no rain and no chill winds. Indeed, the problem (if that […]