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A week is a long time at Whitmuir. Last Friday we opened the doors of the new restaurant and more

By tomorrow lunchtime some 7,000 trees should have been planted on the farm by a band of willing volunteers as part of the BBC Breathing Places world record attempt. more

Pub psychology

Immanuel Kant, one of the great dead philosophers, famously said Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Kant did not live to see our new cattle shed, but if hed watched Richard bending the rhones along the front this week it would only have confirmed his gloomy view of life. more

Life on the farm

Every good day from now feels like a bonus, and the clover is still growing well despite the first frosts. more

The first proper frost

The first proper frost last week saw half a centimetre of ice on the drinking troughs which prompted us to bury the water supply to the new cattle shed. more

A sharp reminder

A sharp reminder last weekend of why this is a good place to build a wind turbine, as the gale ripped another hole in the polytunnel and lifted the black plastic mulch we had laid for the strawberry runners. more

Comings and goings

Readers of Flann O\'Brien\'s classic book The Third Policeman will know that if people spend too long on their bicycles some of the atoms change places and they become part human, part bicycle. Much the same has been happening with the tractor. more

The rain it raineth every day

The first proper test for the drains and soakaways round the new building came last Sunday, and the water obligingly went where we asked it and nowhere else. more

Resilience - our dynamic soil

Food our greatest public good is controlled by a handful of private companies which are powerless to do anything but pursue financial gain, leaving 800 million people hungry and another 800 million people eating too much of the wrong stuff. more