If this doesn't scare the birds, nothing will!	One of the scarecrows in action.

   

A morning of work in the field, planting the first                    Followed by a sumptuous lunch, with the first salad leaves

potatoes, spreading the muck about, and tidying                  from the polytunnel, and a nature walk up the disused

the pre-existing garlic beds...                                                          railway and back via the large ponds (above).

A couple of weeks into the new year, and CHW members met to see a documentary called 'A Farm for a future', about the need to change modern farming into a more sustainable method of food production not reliant on fossil fuels.

 

 

Many barrowloads of topsoil and compost wheeled in and forked into the impoverished soil.   The first

young winter salads were then planted into the worked soil in  rows.

Our Landlord Anthony shows people around the                   A simple game with a ball of string shows how

field that we planned to take over.                                                 the many stages of food production are 

                                                                                                                       interdependent.

 

 The meeting ends with a short talk from members of

 the core group and a question and answer session.