In August last year we gathered Yellow Rattle seed from local fields and sowed the papery discs into bare ground around the hay meadow. Recently, and now she...

The look and feel of the field is changing fast. Since 900 trees were planted in January, the treed areas have been fenced off from livestock and wooden gate...

We were thrilled to hear from our local Shropshire Hills AONB officer just before Christmas that the application for funding for our tree planting via the Wo...

Since my last post much has happened in the field and with our plans for it and late summer has gradually given way to late autumn. The summer flowers are lo...

Step into the meadow on a still September evening, the light clear and tinged with pink, air cooling fast, the sun seeming to balance softly for a moment on ...

A week of heavy, blustery showers, bright sunshine and rainbows. The Harebells continue to spread and flower (although they have not liked the rain) and fina...

John Richards (whose family owned our field until last year) stopped me at his gate this evening to show me two watercolour paintings given to his family by ...

Our field, although having over 100 species of plants in it, does not have any Yellow Rattle. Since this plant is the so called 'meadow-maker,' we thought we...