One route, four completely different walks.
The same three and a half miles in March, July, October and January. The plates change, the palette changes, and about a third of what there is to look at stops existing.
The site changes with the real season, not with a campaign.
The illustration set and the palette on this walk follow the actual season at OX7. Nobody schedules it, nobody signs it off, and it changes whether or not there is anything to promote.
That means the walk you do in February is genuinely a different walk from the one in August, and the February one is emptier, colder and considerably more honest about what a farm is for most of the year.
It also means the plates are drawn four times over. Each stop has a spring, summer, autumn and winter version, which is four times the work and the only way to avoid a website that claims it is always June.
The same twelve stops, four times over.
| Stop | March | July | October | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The gate | Mud | A queue | Mud, and leaves | Empty, and the best time to come |
| The farm shop | Quiet | The busiest month | Busy to half term | Quiet, and card only |
| The yard | Pressure washing | Grain trailers | Drilling traffic | Machinery, in bits |
| The big field | Green haze | Standing, then stubble | Cultivated, then drilled | Bare, and full of rooks |
| The dry stone wall | Best light of the year | Hot, and full of insects | The classic view | Structure, with frost on it |
| The woods | Wild garlic | Dense, dark, and full of nothing | Mushrooms | Standing dead ash, visible at last |
| The spring | Running hard | Running | Running | Running. It always is |
| The unfarmed | Hawthorn out in May | Blackberries coming | Blackberries gone | Laid, and full of birds |
| The bees | Building up | Peak traffic | Winding down | Nothing. The mouse guard is on |
| The lambing shed | The whole point of it | Straw | Straw | Dark |
| The brewery | Steady | Flat out | Winter beers into tank | Steady |
| The pub | The fire lit | The tent up | Game, and the best roast | The fire lit again |
Four seasons on the farm proper.
The farming side has a page for each one, with what is actually being done in it.
Which walk you are doing right now.
Watching the wheat
Harvest is coming
- Season Read from the date at OX7 system clock—
- Plate set The seasonal illustration set theme—
- Palette Follows the season, not a campaign theme—
- Weather Met Office DataHub, OX7 metoffice.datahub30 min
- On the cameras The same ground, live cam-health60 s
20°C at the farm shop, and dry for now
Winter barley running at 4.1 tonnes the hectare
Chapter 41 is open. Forty came before it
In this demonstration build each feed renders a seeded placeholder and names the source that would replace it.
In short.
Four plate sets
Every stop drawn four times, which is four times the work.
Real season
Read from the date at OX7, not from a marketing calendar.
February
Emptier, colder, and the most honest version of the walk.
The same ground
Ten cameras, on the same fields, all year.
Watch the same ground live.
Ten cameras on the fields this walk crosses, running through whatever the weather does.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The words are ours. The brands are not, and nothing here is licensed.
The cast page names every person and what they are actually responsible for, which is not always what the programme implies.
