A blissful half hour walking the fence line with the hens in the forest garden (it only takes one deer!). It’s an area 0.3h of the whole 3.85h croft land and full of fruit trees and bushes. The alder thicket seems to have grown by magic! The only thing flowing […]

We’ve got a lot of rushes on the croft hill. This hardy plant is part and parcel of succession after clearfell. Like many elements we’ve grown to appreciate the rushes for their role in soil stabilisation after clearfell, for the habitat they provide for ground nesting birds and other small […]