Winter on the farm.
Hedging, walling, machinery maintenance, and the accounts. The quiet season, which is when the year is actually decided.
What actually happens.
Hedging, walling, machinery maintenance, and the accounts. The quiet season, which is when the year is actually decided.
The site itself changes with the season — the colours you are looking at right now are the winter palette, and they will change again without anybody touching the code.
- Doing: Hedging and walling
- Also: The accounts, grimly
- Fields: Fallow, and glad of it
When
December to February
In the ground
Hedging and walling
On camera
The field cameras run all year.
In the shop
Whatever this season produced.
The winter plate from the estate illustration set. The Field palette follows the real season at OX7.
The other three seasons.
And what each of them does to a thousand acres.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The farming does not. It made a hundred and forty-four pounds in its first year and has rarely done much better. Everything else on this site exists because of that.
Because the worst ground costs more to crop than it returns, and because hedgerow, scrub and margin do measurable work that a combine never will.
Pestering, at your invitation
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Where a number here is estimated rather than published, the page says so. We would rather be dull than wrong.
