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21.08.2023 - 11:44 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
After three months of purely virtual visits, our world is slowly opening up and allowing us to go places again. After a weekend of serious cabin fever, Ryan and I looked around for somewhere local to which was (a) open and (b) we could safely visit. Prior to Lockdown, we had been planning a trip to Cogges Manor Farm in Witney, so we were thrilled to find out that it is open again, for season ticket holders.
After becoming season ticket holders, we booked an afternoon off, and on Wednesday we set off somewhere for the first time since March. The sunny weather had finally disappeared and been replaced with much-needed rain, but we were lucky it held off for an hour or so while we looked round.
Once you’re through the socially-distant entrance, you receive a warm welcome from the goats!
It’s not that they’ve been starved of human attention – it’s entirely cupboard love. You can buy flower pots of chopped vegetables for them to snack on, and they go nuts for carrot sticks!
There’s a one-way system in place, and the next stop is the main farmyard, which is home to some more animals:
No idea why the chickens were choosing to stare at the wall, but chickens can be odd sometimes!
There’s a picnic spot in the orchard, and then some larger paddocks for sheep, goats and ponies.
Ryan and I have been loving seeing wild animals during Lockdown – bunnies, squirrels, ducks, and even a deer – but they do tend to run away when they see you. It was nice to see some friendlier animal faces!
Cogges also boasts a lovely walled kitchen garden (behind the manor house, which you may have seen on screen, as it has been on Downton Abbey and some other things, apparently.) During the Lockdown it has been maintained by a socially-distanced crew of
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Ryan and I first visited Butser Ancient Farm on a blustery, cold day in February 2014. We loved it so much we decided to take some workshops there this year. Ryan is booked on a sword-making workshop next month, and we both recently spent a morning there learning about ancient cooking.
Matt Damon as astronaut and exobotanist Mark Watney in the film The Martian grows crops on Mars. (20th Century Fox/Handout)
As we’re all stuck at home for the moment, I thought it would be nice to take some virtual tours of lovely places. It might lift our spirits momentarily, and give you some ideas of new places to visit when we are free to wander once more. Today I am sharing one of my favourite places – Butser Ancient Farm. Have you been? Let me know in the comments!
Today is Asteroid Day!
By Sam Humphrey
If we want to create a permanent presence in space, on the Moon or Mars, we need to learn how to use the resources we find there. Space people call it “in-situ resource utilisation”; on Earth, it would just be “living off the land”. It’s just not practical or sustainable to completely supply those missions from Earth.
Chris D Thomas, University of York; Jack Hatfield, University of York, and Katie Noble, University of York
The term pullet refers to a young hen, usually under one year of age. Once a chick develops feathers rather than down, it is then called a pullet if it is female or a cockerel if it is a male. Pullet can refer to a laying hen or a meat chicken but it is more typically used for a laying hen.
Read this Boysenberry vs. Blackberry guide to find differences and similarities between the two and get a clarity once and for all!
The fruits of ‘Juliet’ are somewhere between a plum and a grape or cherry type of tomato— just 2 inches long or so—and borne in clusters of 12 to 18. They’re small enough that I simply halved them (above) for the skins-and-all quick tomato sauce that I freeze 40 containers of each year. I am fascinated with this rich-tasting little plum, now bubbling happily on the stove. Johnny’s Selected Seed rated indeterminate ‘Juliet’ as their most disease-resistant variety in trials (no small honor), I learned today.I have Roberto Flores, the self-proclaimed Dirtmeister at Good Dogs Farm in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, to thank for growing the brimming bag of ‘Juliet,’ and my crafty neighbor Susan Schneider of Shandell’s, who scooped them up for me yesterday, knowing I’d been complaining about being a bag or two short. And I have the Millerton, New York, farmers’ market to thank, too—appreciation all around, friends.Have you grown ‘Juliet’ (pac
APPARENTLY I AM OPERATING A PICK-YOUR-OWN blueberry farm, but my customers arrive early, before the fruit is even ripe; skip the baskets altogether, and leave without paying.