Month: September 2021
Tree Sap Syrup
I’ve a mind to make syrup from tree sap on the farm. I’m combing the hedgerows and woodlands for good sized Alder, Sycamore, Beech, Poplar and Lime
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Hawthorn Hill Nature Diary September 21
The swallows gather, flock above the field and go. Summer holds its breath for one more year. The month has been warm. We have fresh grass. The lambing field is almost knee deep in rippling green.
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Honeybees, failing hives and why we farm holistically for bees
We have two hives remaining One colony gone. Dead. A thin drift of bees on the hive floor. Late to swarm, and light on bees. A small swarm. It was cold and wet before they swarmed.
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Shetland Sheep – Why They Work For A Sustainable Smallholding
Shetland Sheep. Small, tough, smart good mothers. A short blog on what’s good, and not so good and why we chose them
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Small Farms Build Community. Industrial Farms (often) Don’t. Here’s why.
Small farmers live where we work. And we love where we work. We live with our choices, and their results and consequences. In the land we live in.
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