I am looking for Roman remains – of course there aren’t any on the surface, or that I can see, but on my walk from Angmering to Poling, both villages in West Sussex, I keep my eyes peeled. I start at Angmering church, St Margaret’s, and cross the flat field between the two habitations. I […]
I am back with Frances Sedgwick who keeps wonderful Dexter cattle at the Steyning Downland Scheme, close to the rifle range, but today is a difficult day; the final journey for three of her cows. They are to be taken to the abattoir, not an easy thing for a small scale cattle breeder to do, […]
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Julia and I wanted to have a look – because according to their website: Knepp is a 3,500 acre estate just south of Horsham, West Sussex. Since 2001, the land – once intensively farmed – has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project. Using grazing animals as the drivers of habitat creation, and with the […]
Dumpman is back! Today I have taken a trip to Brighton Beach at the crack of Dawn to meet up with Chris Bedford, AKA, Dumpman. We are exploring the remnants of the Magnus Volk’s electric ‘Daddy Long Legs’ railway – half train, half boat that ran at the end of the 19th Century.Brighton and Rottingdean […]
I have popped over to Richard Suggett’s allotment today to ask him for the good and bad reasons for renting an allotment. I want to buy some land and grow my own veg, but also do some experiments with old fashion farming techniques. People have suggested I try first with an allotment. So let’s see […]