Dairy Diary
MAY ON THE FARM
NATURE
The cool weather has lengthened the exquisite beauty of this year’s spring. It always comes as a surprise: th...
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APRIL ON THE FARM
NATURE
April is the cruelest month, the poet said. It’s full of new life and new beginnings. That’s hard for the o...
January on the farm
Nature
January – hunkering down or springing shyly back into life? It is colder, as our enveloping ocean cools. It is...
October on the farm
NATURE
The hot summer has given hedgerows dripping with fruit. Now they are squelching into the damp corruption of a...
September on the farm
NATURE
It’s been a hot, long summer. This year, we sprang from winter straight to summer, without the growthy spring...
August on the farm
NATURE
The parched landscape speaks of hot dry weather belonging to another country. Tree leaves crackle not rustle...
July on the farm
NATURE
July is the natural world at its most blousy and full, leaves dark, dripping and heavy. At this mid point of ...
June on the farm
NATURE
England is at its most beautiful. I’ve had the privilege of a slow train journey across Southern England. It’s...
May on the farm
NATURE
May explodes with the vigour of high spring, uncoiled and released from the unseasonal cold. In the evenings ...
April on the farm
The sudden cold of last month passed, driven away by the power of the early spring sun. But it shows how reliant the ...
March on the farm
It’s so lovely to see the season on the turn. There may be the odd frost or even flurry of snow, and each day the su...
February on the farm
February always used to be the most difficult month, cold and still dark at the end of the winter. More recently, we...
January on the farm
After the feast of Christmas, there is the famine of January. It’s cold, dark, pinched, and all life yearns for the ...
