Category: 11. June 2023
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6 months ago…
What a difference six months makes! Exactly 6 months ago, back in early December, we disc harrowed our small meadow to break up the grass thatch and then overseeded the resulting bare earth with a mix of traditional British wildflowers. Almost immediately thereafter followed an exceptionally cold spell that froze the ground solid. We were…
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A bit of balance
At the heart of our philosophy on the farm is that you can successfully balance modern agriculture with conservation. The reality of course is that this is a just pleasing aspiration for us on our small little farm. For the world as a whole however, it is an imperative, being the only possible way to…
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Chicken of the Woods
Seems rather odd to be writing about fungi in the heat of an early summer day – somehow I always associate mushrooms and the like with the cool damp weather of autumn. Anyway, nature knows best and one of our lovely white poplars has sprouted three magnificent brackets of chicken-of-the-woods – an edible fungus that…
Hope for the Lappinch 