Farming and Smallholding

How the enigma of an old plough in the nettles led to an insight into the landscape all around and helped seed a lifelong interest in the significance of ploughs, ploughing and ploughlands.

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How I ended up behind a horse and plough because of a day’s sketching

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A lovely spring smell is in the air which takes me back to the scent of grass and earth mixed together on a Sussex farm...

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On the trials of living and working with the mud of clay lands.

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I found out when I started my first full time job on a dairy farm in West Sussex. This is my account of the trials and honest failings of that day, and how it led me to realise that the most essential requirements of working in agriculture are a steady pace and resilience.

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If you wanted to mow a couple of acres for hay, either for a wildflower meadow, or to feed a few farm animals on a smallholding, what do you cut it with? For simple practicality I would probably use an old drum mower on a tractor, but it might be the least charming option. In a break from painting an old horse drawn mower I take a quick tour through most of the other possibilities, and the trials and tribulations I have experienced when trying them out over the years.

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