Helen Kearney is a degree qualified medical herbalist, and along with husband Stuart is the tenant of one of the three plots of land at Greenham Reach on the Somerset/Devon border near Wellington, and owned by the Ecological Land Co-operative ……….. click on the post title or image to find out more.
Alex Wilson and Ruth O’Brien and their young family successfully bid for one of three plots of virgin land on the border of Somerset and Devon to be converted into homes and sustainable farming plots within five years, following acquisition of the land by the Ecological Land Co-Operative. Real pioneers of a new wild west. ……….. click on the post title or image to find out more.
The name of River Cottage has become synonymous with that of Hugh Fernley-Wittingstall as the chef has achieved celebrity in his promotion of local, fresh and organic. I had the privilege of visiting HQ – wasn’t quite what I had expected. ……….. click on the post title or image to find out more.
Question…..can you farm 800+ sheep from a small terraced cottage in Maiden Bradley and own no land? Well, as you might guess from the fact that I ask the question, the answer is yes, cos Tim White is doing it……………click on the post title or image to find out more.
Pigs running free in woodland, hens also in the woods and goats being goats….this is Chagford Community Farm or Chagfarm, and not to be confused with Chagfood, the Chagford Community Market Garden…………..click on the post title or image to find out more.
I could see a group of half a dozen or so people in the distance working in the field as the mist lurked across the surrounding hillsides. They were rhythmically bending, rising, chopping, bending, rising, chopping………….click on the post title or image to find out more.
Ash Wheeler is Secretary to Land Workers Alliance and grows on land leased at Trill Farm, a 300 acre mixed organic farm set in the rolling hills and woodlands of east Devon……..click on the post title or image to find out more.
