Category: Land

From Jamie Mac, and I missed most of Oxford Real Farming Conference (Serena's funeral on Friday), but this Guardian article relevant to the plan to open a permissive path onto the land.

I met Lin, a stranger, who'd won the gift I'd offered to Thorington Church fund raiser: a night in the cabin. It turned out she was a willow weaver, basket maker, wool twister, a remarkable creative woman. What about willow for your land? she said. So it was Sam and I motored down to near… Continue reading Lin’s Willow

Government Land Use policy Steve Reed sets out how the most sophisticated land use data ever published will support decision-making by local government, landowners, businesses and farmers

Four black poplar planted by Kinda Forest School wednesday tribe, December 3rd 2024, photos and description here. https://kindaforestschool.com/2024/12/05/kinda-planting-native-black-poplar-on-the-land/ Location map What3Words Favourites///chips.shelving.soggyBlack poplar 1Favourites///blacken.spinning.dwarvesBlack poplar 1 32fFavourites///tenses.smirks.riverbedBlack poplar 2 28mFavourites///vets.venturing.logicBlack poplar 2 x

The idea of silver birch and yew came from Sheffield. I saw it at Clumber Park a place randomly found on my way to stay with Richard, February this year. Silver birch - or Rockstar as Paul calls them - as pioneers to mark the circle, with Yew, growing far more slowly to take over,… Continue reading Circle, first planting

David King came with his little red chariot and did the last grass cut along the rides. He was right, he did it faster and more effectively than I could. And I? I spent a glorious day in the wood, preparing the cabin for Serena, talking, cooking and helping Chris who came and cut up… Continue reading Land last grass cut

One of our best Elders projects, unusual in that we commissioned Tamlin to come for 6 weeks, to walk us through the process of finding clay from the land, making and finally firing. Here's the movie

Recalling when Clive came last year, and assuaged my feeling of terror of so much ragwort, by declaring what rich variety of flora was on the field - after he came again this year I walked the field and found similar gratitude. Here it is. The dominant thistle (I notice named as Scotch bastard thistle)… Continue reading Land May – flowers

I couldn't have done it without MJ. We harrowed and sowed in the same day, up to the 12 hour, mixing hand sowing with tractor sowing. BS Species Rich Wild Grass Seed (5 x 20kg - £143/20kg)1£715.00£715.00£0.00£715.00Crimson Clover Seed (Trifolium incarnatum) (1 x 25kg)2£86.00£86.00£0.00£172.00Phacelia Seed (Phacelia tanacetifolia) (1 x 25kg)3£114.00£114.00£0.00£342.00Borage Seed (Borago officinalis) (1 x… Continue reading Sowing seed, rain dances,

As I sat on the tractor bumping over the furrows created by it's larger cousin on last years plough, I thought back to that moment in Time in our Life project, when I declared my desire to marry a farmer, and realised that while this would never be fulfilled, I AM a farmer. Is the… Continue reading Tractor driving