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Category Archives: smallholding
‘Compelling and interacting stories’: the inhabitants of a Solway smallholding
“A list of animals … could become tiresome, but it is necessary to grasp the true richness of nature. Think of it as not so much an inventory as a catalogue leading to compelling and interacting stories…” (Richard Fortey, 2016. … Continue reading
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Tagged chiffchaff, eels, moorhens, pond, poplar hawk moth, rookery
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A Solway smallholding: update 2023
Six o’clock, and the rooks and jackdaws are wheeling in the darkening sky, shrieking and cawing in a cacophony of sound, their attention focussed on the garden below. The football-rattle clatter of vigilant magpies adds another layer of sound. Like … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, no-mow, pond
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A Solway small-holding: an update
I last wrote about our small-holding in NW Cumbria in May 2018, shortly after we had planted our ‘Three-score-years-and ten’ wood, including a hedge and a couple of thickets, on one of our fields. The trees have now had four … Continue reading
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Tagged moths, ponds, small-holding, tree-planting
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A Solway small-holding
Yesterday I stood leaning on the pitchfork by the glowing ash-pile, just looking around at the trees and the hedges and our sheep. Two weeks ago, on a blue, still morning, there had been a sound like a gun-shot from … Continue reading
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Tagged pond, sheep, small-holding, springs, woodland
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Solway Shore-walker 