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Month: January 2018

What to do with the Willow?

What to do with the Willow?

I harvested my first willow this winter. It is drying out in my lair, awaiting my attempts at making something. The willow was cut from my Fedge and Arches and also from some random whips I stuck in a couple of years back. For my birthday Andy bought me a days course at Creative With Nature in Todmorden. I managed (but only with expert guidance from Joe Gregory) to create a beautiful trophy stag (called Stefan) who will grace by beautiful…

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Fruity!

Fruity!

One snowy Saturday in December Andy, I and Peggy the dog took a trip to the amazing new site of the Incredible Farm up at Lumbutts to purchase some lovely hardy fruit trees for the space at the back of our house. If you have never heard of Incredible Farm, go and seek them out – they do good things! I am hoping to get back to volunteering there again, but I need to concentrate on our farm at the…

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