Still Here—21 September 2026
Seventeen suggested identifications this morning—and the house martins are still here.
Seventeen suggested identifications this morning—and the house martins are still here.
An accidentally extended recording produced 27 identifications—with a few that need a very large question mark.
Twenty-two birds heard or spotted around the smallholding this morning, from wrens and willow warblers to one of our resident buzzards.
Thirty protected survivors from 147 self-seeded oaks are turning a field for grazing into young oak parkland.
Two recordings, two very different soundscapes—and the house martins are still here.
A half-hour morning recording picked up 19 species—and begins a new record of who is living on and passing through the land.
Nine-year-old sunflower seed germinated, flowered and began a new seed-saving experiment stretching to 2035.
An enormous Brandywine beefsteak tomato containing roughly five seeds and a great deal of tomato.
One young tree, one peach, divided into quarters and eaten warm from the TimberTunnel.
This delicious recipe for Peruvian Green Sauce or “Ají de Huacatay” comes from the Real Seeds website. Peruvian Green Sauce is made using Huacatay (also known as Peruvian Black Mint), a herb used in Peru which the Real Seeds website describes as having a flavour somewhere between coriander and mint. When I first grew it, I…