Sowing seed, rain dances,

I couldn't have done it without MJ. We harrowed and sowed in the same day, up to the 12 hour, mixing hand sowing with tractor sowing. BS Species Rich Wild Grass Seed (5 x 20kg - £143/20kg)1£715.00£715.00£0.00£715.00Crimson Clover Seed (Trifolium incarnatum) (1 x 25kg)2£86.00£86.00£0.00£172.00Phacelia Seed (Phacelia tanacetifolia) (1 x 25kg)3£114.00£114.00£0.00£342.00Borage Seed (Borago officinalis) (1 x…

Spontaneous Hazel weaving in the wood

Returned one day to find the front of the pond frame had been completely re-built, and well built and well woven. Clare and her daughter had done in one weekend. Then Clare and her son rocked up on a spring day and continued the weaving, along with Peter, who'd rocked up just to see how…

Tractor driving

As I sat on the tractor bumping over the furrows created by it's larger cousin on last years plough, I thought back to that moment in Time in our Life project, when I declared my desire to marry a farmer, and realised that while this would never be fulfilled, I AM a farmer. Is the…

Richard Fox to wood, with TPO news

By random chance he followed me into the wood. After a firm reminder that with a TPO wood, I needed to seek permission to fell/coppice/cut back ANY tree - or at least any tree born prior to the TPO which was an early one, 1949. Ah so that’s ok, we’ve just felled silver birch which…

Friends of Kaliwood – poems, fire, flint, paint, chai

We brushed our dust - Meg reminding us that the phrase came from a poem . Caroline the poet was with us and gave us the word Widishins - but I’ve forgotten the meaning!!! Leslie told us of the Plantation garden in Norwich which lifted her spirits. We meandered over to the field to view…

Vital Statistics

Purchase 12 Sept 2022 Karmafield Company 05657457 UTR 1373080923 Land Perimeter - 1,386 Area: 67,462.6 Total area: 62,361.21 m²(671,250.51 ft²)Total distance: 1.36 km(4,460.46 ft) Distance 1,401 Acres: 17 Hectares: 6.87966 Magic: https://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?&startTopic=Rasters&chosenLayers=backdropDIndex,backdropIndex,europeIndex,baseIndex&box=639938:277127:641532:278190&useDefaultbackgroundMapping=false Rural Payment 1106213890 SPI SBI: 200930566 TM 40714 77694

Gary Batell to the land

Blast - no photo! Perfect timing for Gary to come to the land and add to the basket of knowledge for one who is not land savvy. He not only contributed to the 'what now' land, but invited a wider vision both for the and and Halesworth. Woodland Trust - Esther Rosewarne, may advise /fund…

Trevor Wright: advice on EWCO

I was fascinated in what Trevor said, I failed to ask about him, and only gleaned 28+ years in Forestry. EWCO https://www.gov.uk/guidance/england-woodland-creation-offerApply by 30 June to secure agreement offers for the following planting season. England Woodland Creation (EWCO) Forestry Commission, parallel to Countryside Stewardship and will probably merge eventually.Uplift from 10 to 15 years maintenance…

Visit of Shaun to Land

When Shaun and his wife Aileen began speaking of land, at Kim and Nicks, I knew he’d be the right person to advise me during this critical time. Of course I should have started earlier. It is spring now. They arrived, Shaun with a spade, and waked through the wood out to the land. Crispin…

Spring in the wood