Unfortunately my phone camera has failed on me so the photos I took of various plants on Bristol harbourside yesterday as part of my fourth day of ’20 Days Wild’ are gone forever (or at least beyond my capacities as a technologist to resuscitate them). My record will therefore have to suffice from my memoryContinueContinue reading “‘Day 4’ of 20 Days Wild”
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The contrasts of Spring
Although it feels somewhat difficult to believe at the moment, as I peer out through the closed window at the garden currently enjoying the latest downpour, with the wind blowing leaves all about the place, Spring is here. To be astronomically precise it actually began in the northern hemisphere on Sunday March 20th – the vernal equinox.ContinueContinue reading “The contrasts of Spring”
Our Place in Time and the Subtleties of Changing Landscapes
Bordering the north eastern most part of our farm at Walton Hall, Walton-on-the-Naze lies an area of low lying land, owned by the District Council and protected from regular flooding by the natural, rapidly eroding cliff. This small section of eroding cliff face also protects a water treatment works which serves thousands of local people,ContinueContinue reading “Our Place in Time and the Subtleties of Changing Landscapes”
Standing up for Positive Stories and the Benefits of Growing from the Grass Roots
Last Friday I was interviewed by Joe Webster and Ollie Baines of ‘Local Presence’, a community podcast based in north east Essex which looks to share ‘good news stories’ in the Tendring area. This kind of voluntary initiative is just the sort of thing that communities everywhere would benefit from and it really is aContinueContinue reading “Standing up for Positive Stories and the Benefits of Growing from the Grass Roots”
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