My productive vegetable garden reclaimed from scrub land 5 years ago – the hedgerows are harvested for logs by coppicing and hedge laying, there are hens, compost bins, fruit trees, log storage, polytunnels willow beds and Phormium (for weaving). Birds nest in the trees and hedges (goldfinch, bullfinch, chaffinch, greenfinch, blackbirds, wrens, pigeons, thrushes, etc…), a huge grass snake has decided to make its home here too.
High labour inputs this time of year but there will be food for the house right through until next spring.
