
Tag: farming
Exmoor Stories: How Exmoor Farmers celebrate their wedding anniversary ;-)
Local author Victoria Eveleigh posted these lovely photos of her dear husband earlier today:
You can find out more about West Ilkerton Farm here.
And if you’d like to see what Victoria Eveleigh is up to when not taking photos of her dear husband on their wedding day, then have a look on her website.
Technicolour Dream Sheep
10 Winners of the Exmoor4all Photo Competition in June
Exmoor Literally: A Childhood on Exmoor
David Hill started work on THE FARMHOUSE TREE in 1976, 14 years after death of his father aged 62 when he was 16.
“Born out of time I suppose, parents married in 1931 when mother was 21and father nearly 30. Another 16 years, and in 1947 the stork located the gooseberry bush and I was born. No electricity until I was 16, and no mains water or mains drainage. Farm work done with a shire horse. And how I loved the gay harvests, the scent of crushed chamomile, crushed by hoof and boot and the heat under the hayshed’s galvanised iron roof at the end of the evening when the final load was being pitch forked in. The first ride home on the cart load of hay. Lurch to the right, lurch to the left. Holding on tight to the lade and the rope.The brush of a low beech branch and the flight of swallow and martin replaced by the wing of bat….But I go on.This probably gives you a taste of the book. A childhood remembered with love.”
“The Farmhouse Tree” can be obtained by ordering at any bookshop for £12.99 or direct from publisher …Jayde Design. Make cheque out for £12.99 to Jayde Design and send to Jayde Design, 21 Honor Oak Road,Honor Oak,London SE23 3SH. This includes p/p.
All royalties are going to David’s old primary school at Bishops Nympton and Michael Morpurgo’s Farms for City Children.
Date for the Diary: Celebration of Farming
Farm life
Staring contest
Exmoor Horns on the Moor
Plenty of Exmoor Horn Sheep with lambs about at the moment. Very chilly here on Exmoor; therefore the farmer has given most of his lambs a plastic coat for protection! This photo was posted by Experience Exmoor – Pop over to their website and book your Exmoor Safari to see the lambs and the ponies on the moor.