Working the land
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Bracken wars!!!
Creeping into the fields we have a wealth of bracken. As this is going to eventually impinge on the productivity of the land for haylage etc James and I waited until our tenant farmer had mown the field for his haylage and out I went with the beast!!!! Joyfully at the furthest…
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Building a flower bed!!
Sunday morning we started with this…… And a gate stuck in the bank dropping down to the winter stream…. With some hard work hefting old electric poles from the hedge, moving and digging rocks and carting compost we have a flower bed, the starts of a rockery, and the beginnings of what will…
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Shave horse!
Last weekend my Dad brought down a shave horse he built me! This weekend James and I spent some time making stakes to stabilise woodland steps!!! I think we ended up with about 32, at four per step….. Mmmmm….. 8 steps….. Few more to make me thinks!!!
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Burning the Brash piles and mowing the steep steep orchard and fields!!
The first weekend of half term was spent starting to mow the fields and finally getting rid of brash piles that have been the bane of our fire lighting lives all winter!!! We seem to have cracked the fire lighting now though thanks to a lot of newspaper, breaking the piles down a bit and…
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Some more work in the woods
April meant more tidying up of the woodland and the rides, dealing with some fallen trees and starting to demarcate the rides and paths and accesses! Also we have not killed off the hedge by laying!!!!!!! Hurrah!!!! And we have some more wood for the wood piles!!!
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Starting work in the woods
James and I finished off the hedge laying and started a woodland entrance…. We seem to start work and more bits appear!!!! We have a downed ash to chop up and some blackthorns to chop up to make steps…. Oh and reams more of the damn black plastic and more tyres!!!! Oh and it looks…
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Back through the woods… The woodland part three
Once we had managed to make it down to the stream we had to climb all the way back up!!! However we found that the old coppice paths still were visible through the woodland and they, other than the occasional blockage allowed for us to clamber back up somewhat more easily!!! Well definitely more easily…
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Forest school
I have been really lucky recently and have been allowed to attend a forest schools leader training course!!! So much fun and it’s going to be amazing for my class to access and beyond in school!!! I am going to set up a forest schools area on the farm, as we have an established area…
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Tree planting!
Finally not a post about us destroying stuff, hacking something back or levelling something!!! Something productive…. Or it will be when they grow!!! 46 fruit trees planted staked and thanks to the rain watered in!!!! Planted in the lea of the hill to shelter them a little and up enough out of the…