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30 November 2024 Expectant males Frogs last bred in our George’s Pond in 2021 - and successfully too as the photo of spawn shows. And so doe...

24 November 2024 Yesterday an emotionally-buffeting day with mum and quite probably another to come. A necessary pre-breakfast walk to reene...

19 November 2024 Early snow, moving us with a click of the dial from autumn to winter. Eight skylarks above calling in easterly flight. Gree...

18 November 2024 A day we’ve worked towards for months, indeed years, came today. In April, John from Notts Bat Group set up a static detect...

15 November 2024 The low cloud and mist have woven through the deciduous trees giving us a long, atmospheric autumn that has been quite love...

Tsar (white) , Borlotti (speckled) and Cobra (black) beans.  27 October 2024 We grow beans for drying. They climb up our sticks over the sum...

27 October 2024 Leaf fall. The leaves of our deciduous garden trees are yellowing. Sycamore. Silver birch. European larch. Beech. Spent leav...

22 October 2024 Warm and still. Dragonflies and damselflies are h unting over the meadow.   An impressive male southern hawker ( Aeshna cyan...

21 October 2024 Busy continuing with the vegetable garden autumn tidy. As compost bins fill, order returns. Much still to do. In the birch a...

16 October 2024 Beetroot harvest, a big one too. We’ve been growing by mulching the soil surface with our own organic compost for five years...