Please stay at home this weekend!
I’m sharing this video of Bepton Church and some little lambs to encourage people not to travel to the South Downs this weekend. Please stay at home and enjoy the view on YouTube instead!
Category: Farming
Bale Castle
This is a monster of a haystack!
25 feet tall and built with great care an precision… I came across it behind the village of Lavant in West Sussex after the field had been combined and cleared. The next day it had gone.
New Zealand Romney Sheep
Welcome neighbours!
A big welcome to Andrew and Laura and all their wonderful sheep. Andrew and Laura join us from Locks Farm a few miles along the Downs near Pulborough and it will be lovely to see all their lovely sheep in the fields between Didling and Cocking.
Barlavington Down
John Deere, rolling Downs
It’s a good day when everything comes together for a nice photograph! The simple rolling lines of this vast chalk field, a single tractor and perfect light. Ooooh it’s good to be out and about…
This photo and others are on my Photostream at Flickr.
Field of Poppies
Set-aside agricultural land
If you’ve driven along the road between Midhurst and Petworth this week and you’ll almost certainly have spotted this impressive field of poppies. When I stopped to take a photograph I had to queue to get into the field behind another four photographers, one of whom had traveled from Portsmouth to see these flowers!
Yellow Rape Fields
Yellow fields, Bepton
Bank holiday weather? Never mind the rain The South Downs (somewhere under the clouds) are always lovely 🙂
Fields under Fleece
Agricultural Fleece on Fields in West Sussex
My son Nathan described the field as ‘a giants bed’ because viewed from a distance it looks like a huge stripey bed-sheet. I love the fact that children see things that grown-ups pass by!
Fleece is used in farming to protect crops from frost and cold temperatures. It stops young plants from getting ‘bitten’ by frost, and keeps soil temperatures up during the daytime when the sun shines.
Upperton Vineyards and The English Wine Week 2012
Upperton Vineyard
In addition to the Golden Jubilee and the Olympic Games which are fast approaching, another highlight of the British calendar that we have to look forward to this summer is English Wine Week.
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Lambing at Cowdray Model Farm
Christmas ham
This little piggy didn’t go to market…
Well this little piggy wasn’t invited in for Boxing Day lunch. He looked very pleased to see us as we walked through the yard at Church Farm though I suspect before long he’ll be destined for the table. Still snow on the ground! Oink!
Bepton Ranger 