Something of a busman’s holdiay this, but some time ago I helped our friend Brian (of Woodhill Farm) to put up his polytunnel frame, and ever since we’ve been waiting for the weather to be warm and wind-free enough to put the cover on. To hope for sun...
These crisp, sunny mornings are what make this one of my favourite times of year, and the farm is starting to burst into life once again. Here we are experimenting with no-dig potato growing in last year’s chicken enclosure. The potatoes are simply bedded on a...
It has been rather quiet here on the blog recently – first because this winter was considerably quieter than the last, Â and a time for reflection and planning. A lot of reading was done over the quiet months, and in some ways this has reinforced our sense of...
The humble Electric Daisy strikes again. Â John decided to give them a go, and his expression says a lot about the effects that this most enervating little flower can have – Step 1 – Yes, I can feel something is happening…. Step 2 – Yes,...
In what was an exceedingly hectic but productive end to the week, we welcomed a host of volunteers to the farm to help us plant our contribution to One Million Trees in One Day, which in the end turned out to be about 160, in a variety of places all over the farm....
Rather surprisingly the sun came out today so we dashed out and got to work. Claire and Lyra were on weeding duty in the small polytunnel, and I managed to put up the frame of the new big polytunnel, although some interesting acrobatics were needed as I was on...