Where does your recycling go?

Another unusual farm diversification project…but Chris and Simon Mountain’s East Midlands waste management and recycling centre has been so successful that they now rent out the family farm and have essentially diversified out of farming all together. It all started at the end of the 90s with two skip lorries (which they inherited when someone… Continue reading Where does your recycling go?

A Day on a Mixed Farm

Exactly midway through our tour, we spent the day ‘helping’ Christina’s friend’s brother on his mixed farm in Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire.  We’re not sure how much help we were, but it was damn good fun! At 23, Hugh Darbishire is back on the family farm after finishing college and bursting with ideas. But it’s not… Continue reading A Day on a Mixed Farm

Farm and Countryside Watch

If anyone was wondering why there was a police car in the woods with us in our last entry, let us introduce you to PC Pete, a Wildlife Crime Officer for the Sussex Police. Pete came down to see the coppicing and to tell us about a scheme he set up in the region called… Continue reading Farm and Countryside Watch

Out in the Woods with the BTCV

BTCV (formerly the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) is a charity that gives volunteers the opportunity to engage in ‘hands on’ conservation work in the rural and urban environment. One of our members, Keith, works for them part-time and kindly suggested that we pay them a visit at the Forestry Commission Site, near Eartham in… Continue reading Out in the Woods with the BTCV

Let the Marathon Commence

After months of planning and an inordinate amount of chat about motorhomes, we are finally ‘on the road’. We were greeted with the usual number of problems one gets on important days when you’re trying to leave on time but we didn’t let the odd flat car battery and a complete lack of mobile phone… Continue reading Let the Marathon Commence

A gamey point-to-point

We had a great day out at the Charing Point-to-Point in Kent on April 7th, when we shared a stand with Mark Gilchrist from Game for Everything.  Luckily for us, we went down the night before and Marky Mark made us dinner – that boy really knows how to cook! Mark had sorted us out… Continue reading A gamey point-to-point