FARMING WITH NATURE
Hannah Genders visits a village farmer whose philosophy is to ‘give something back’ and to enhance the land.
During lockdown earlier this year, many of...
WARM, WET AND NOISY
Village weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes
August was a warmer than average month in The Village area, with a mean temperature of...
‘Selfies’ in space
Village astronomer Brian Watkiss peers into the night sky . . . .
Here we are in the middle of October already and the nights...
BACK TO THE ROOTS
Mary Green visits the farm where she grew up to see the benefits of organic methods.
What an odd year it has been. It was...
GARDENING AT LE MANOIR
Hannah Genders visits the source of Raymond Blanc’s famous seasonal produce and meets the gardening brains behind it.
As a saying from the 1940s goes:...
LOVING THE UNLOVED
Mary Green surveys the natural wonders we have turned against . . .
I hope people have kept up the closer link with the natural...
LOCKDOWN SUNSHINE
If there was one thing that made the early months of lockdown bearable for many people, it was the weather.As Villagers found themselves with...
BIG BEASTS LINE UP
Well, what an exciting spring we had! The first launch of Americans into space from US soil for nine years.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft worked...
THE SUMMER GARDEN
Even after a long spring and early summer in the garden there’s still work to be done, writes Hannah Genders.
We’ve all been madly gardening...
NATURAL REACTION
This has been a strange spring and early summer in all ways. Not only have people’s habits been drastically changed by the lockdown, but we have had peculiar weather. It was the sunniest May ever – my solar panels made lots of electricity! It was unusually warm and here in particular extremely dry. All the muddy patches went and were replaced by dry ground.