Category: 3. March 2022
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How do you like your hedge?
Our hedge on the left, our neighbour’s on the right. Ours shaggy, straggly and increasingly overgrown; our neighbour’s thick and beautifully trimmed into a traditional “A” shape. Which is best? We deliberately left our almost 3 miles of hedges untrimmed over this first winter on the farm, partly due to other priorities but, more practically,…
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Frog spawn
That is it. One lonely clump of frog spawn across all of the six ponds and splashes on our farm. For the last few weeks I have been keeping an eye out for frog spawn on my morning walks around the farm, hoping to see that most traditional sign of early spring. Like many, I…
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Complete failure…
So our attempts to create a wildlife-friendly field margin do not exactly appear to have been a success! Late last September, full of enthusiasm having just moved to the farm, we ordered an acre’s worth of AB8 Flower Rich field margin seeds with a view to creating a wonderful habitat for insects and farmland birds…
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Q: How long does it take to plant 500 trees?
A: Under an hour! Can you believe it?! Thanks to our 40-odd volunteers who came prepared to plant, in return for the promise of sausages, cake and perhaps a pint or two of Weetwood Best, we were able to whizz through the planting and realise another step in our plans. The idea started last October…
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Lapwing on the farm!
Exciting news this morning – our first lapwing on the farm! Only one so far and appeared to be feeding rather than looking for a nesting site. However, was in exactly the spot we have earmarked for a future lapwing plot so certainly suggests our plans are not entirely without merit. In the meantime good…
Hope for the Lappinch 