summer feels like its making its mind up about exactly when to leave and everything on the smallholding seems to sense change coming…the sheep are less active, the trees in the orchards looking less upright and lively, the chickens laying less and in more peculiar places
the vigour and chirpiness of spring and summer feels like its becoming loose and tatty…old jeans
its small stuff, but i find im thinking of the wood store, where the flask is, of seed and plant catalogues
the place needs an mot…whether the new orchards have taken and flourished, whether everything is working together across the holding, whats to come for next year and what should i change
over the next two weeks ill have a few people to come and help me piece together a better vision for the place, take the best of whats worked, and take it forward