…blown most of the snow off west facing fields. First lamb births imminent. I wonder if the nets over the pheasant laying pens have survived the snow and wind. Another…

…damage to immature trees in the garden as we have seen in the past few months. It is clear that squirrels migrate from hedgerows around corn and maize fields after…

…This is the view of the fairly newly reconstructed stone faced earth bank between Warren and Look Out fields. It is properly sheep fenced and now hosts many interesting wildflowers….

…people and shows what a farm tenant with only three or four fields could achieve. Weeds everywhere exactly as they used to be 50 years ago when many farmers used…

…know the 2017 forms are bollocks too. They have lost 70 entitlements (hectares) this year rather than just 20 last year and awarded us two fields which we do not…

…flower survey of all the fields on the farm. These show a massive increase in numbers of plant species and plant diversity since the last survey in 2011. Colin is…

…place for rhododendrons and certainly not Alan Clark’s Vietnamese introductions. clearing of a laurel clump 2000 – FJW Corn being ploughed back in at Treluckey – large fields of maize…

…arvensis Papaver rhoeas, corn or common poppy, which is in decline in Cornwall and usually found (before sprays) in corn fields. Papaver rhoeas Myosotis arvensis, common forget-me-not, in similar patches….

…is replanted each autumn after two doses of rather unorganic round up which is of course not talked about. These plants would all have grown in island cornfields 80 to…

…or creeping thistle, which is a pest in the parkland and coastal fields here. We used to spray infestations out but this is not allowed now in a parkland setting…