Sweet chestnut
Six-spot burnet moth
Waxcaps
Worm counting
Puddled clay pond
Wildflower walk, June 2025
Yellow shell moth
Preparing more wildflower areas
Wild carrot
Small mammal brushwood habitat
Wild carrot
Rotavating clay and bentonite mix
Chit shifting hay
West hedge, December 2024
Digging docks
Turkey tail log
Wasp spider
Toona senesis
Speckled wood moth
Drilling cornfield annuals
Solitary beehive
Scything meadow grasses, Jan 2025
Slow worm in the newly formed pond
Making silage from clover
Preparing for rye
Puddled clay & bentonite
Scarlet waxcaps
Scything team
Pre purchase, September 2022
Giant puffballs
Preparing for garlic
New barn for machinery & produce
'Pondificating' with Richard
Pond digging
Planting windbreak, February 2025
Planting shelter belt
Locals visit
Pyrus “Kumoi”
Pecan 'carlson 3'
Pink campion & oxeye daisy
Persimmon 'fuyu'
Water pipes for drought
New hedging, September 2024
Nick Phillips & parasol mushroom
New hedge & fence
Yet more hedging
Neighbours helping to sow wildflowers
Lucy & Nick Gray sowing wildflowers
Medlar
Laying drain
Lucy planting the first new hedge
Lower meadow ragworting, July 2023
Lucy taking garlic to market
Laying mains water
Lesser trefoil, red clover, grasses
Kidney vetch, knapweed, oxeye daisies in large field meadow
Jill in the wildflowers
Inspiration from Martin Crawford
Pond area
Jersey tiger moth
Greater knapweed
Wild carrots
Wildflower meadow & low sugar grasses beyond
Chit mowing
October 2022
Dorset hedging team
Hedge maintenence
Nick Gray sowing wildflowers
Field scabious
Greater knapweed
We got it!
Discing
Garlic trials
Glorious alsike & white clovers
Garlic trials
Fencing and hedge planting, March 2024
Pond
First almond
Common blue & birdsfoot trefoil
East hedge, February 2023
Lucy & Chit
Dormouse accidentally unearthed
Seed drilling complete
Birdsfoot trefoil and knapweed
Asian pear 'kumoi'
Clover & birdsfoot trefoil, multi crop orchard
Worm counting
Planting up the shelter belt
Black grass
Compacted soil
Cornfield annuals
Chit taking a break
Mulching with cardboard and bark
Almond enclosure
Almond (prunus robijn)