Hedge Life Whilst planting 100 babies into our translocated hedge to help it along the way, James found these two lovelies. Great hedge...

Went to The Beefy Boys in Hereford today (one of our favourites, the BEST burgers) and would you believe it, they sell ‘Cwtch’, Welsh...

22nd Feb and the water mains are in! One ‘business’ main at 50mm and one domestic at 25mm. Not entirely without hassle, lots of leaky...

Minimum depth of water main is 750mm. Our stick is marked at 850mm. Sure don’t want installation to fail the rigorous Dwr Cymru...

Been ages planning next stage as we have been learning what’s involved in putting mains water supplies in. Thank you Fergus at Dwr Cymru...

Last load of the day. Same again Monday and we’ll see where we get to. Then quiet week while we re-group and plan for next phase of...

My James, pretending to be a digger driver #newventure #campsite #muchmarcle #driveway #digger #herefordshire #topsoil #moles #molehills...

Where we have come from. Where we have yet to go. View from the top of a digger! #newventure #campsite #muchmarcle #driveway #digger...

Had a lovely visitation from @lynedownorganics , sustenance for the workers? #newventure #campsite #muchmarcle #driveway #digger...

Going well. This is in the afternoon, showing distance in from new entrance. 200 tons doesn’t go as far as you would imagine but going in...

New temporary splay. Coned off for the night. Look at the immense molehills that we have though in the bottom photo! Seriously though,...

First job today was to build a bridge in the new splay over the ditch that would take 20 ton lorries of stone. Once the ducting and pea...

Top is new splay from road, bottom looking the other way from our new drive. Well, started the day with a crisis. Stone for driveway that...

Tomorrow, onto digging out the driveway. 215 metres of 10 inch deep stone. Have marked it out today with paint. Stone being delivered end...

Footing in all plants and tidying up edges today but keep your fingers crossed that this translocations hedge will make a go if it this...

Part 2 Gently release the roots of the hedge, lift at absolutely the right angle and place in the receiving trench. James made this look...

Part 1 115m of hedge to be moved. First hire yourself a very large digger and find a suitably skilled driver (James Powell). Dig a lovely...

wonderful tounges of flame from our brash burn. Sunburnt faces when we sat on the trailer to eat lunch. Job done...digger on Monday.

The first steps are sometimes the hardest. Taking this beautiful hedge down to 50cm to allow for translocation backward into the field is...

Just thought you might like to meet ’The Boys’...Grey is Socio, Chocolate is Chaucer and Black is Luther. #lusitano #labradoodle...