With the season of sowing and planting taking place this spring, care and attention to the seedlings and their environment has been the order of the day, nurturing them to try to ensure they then make productive plants. Hoeing and weeding duties haven't been unduly heavy, with other measures too taking place. Some crops such as beetroot need a bit more 'care and attention' but with then the likelihood of a fuller crop.
Soft fruit production has been ok with useful further prospects, applying too to the fruit trees in the orchard with a bumper harvest, fingers crossed, in the making. A useful supply of free fuel (wood) has been obtained, all now stacked up drying and ready for the chainsaw come September time. Two new chickens have settled well with the older remaining hen and all are laying well.
Although it's been reported that modern western-style cultures lead to 'isolationism' the positive help response of people in the recent UK terrorists attacks has shown that humanity has not thankfully extinguished in individuals and that in spite of any isolationist 'mass' culture, 'fellow feeling' is alive and well.
Some 'freerangers' seek out wild uninhabited places in which to live and practice self-determination and self-responsibility, often experiencing 'nature in the raw', and quite harsh conditions, gaining often too close relationships with their animals. One farming family worked to understand their animals more fully with surprising, to some, results.
