New Life

The farm is taking new directions now that there are no animals larger than our Barbary ducks, of whom there are too many for my liking at the moment. There is something eating the chickens, it was there today eating the chicken without dragging it away - a bird perhaps? I shall have to research that. Which means it was eating whilst I was there with a moany Ivor - no doubt missing the party! His birthday seemed to last three days. Party On Ivor! I am clearing around the chicken shed, it is lets say a little overgrown ;)
Planting hedges and fruit trees would seem to be a good way forward. The preference will of course be to  local, rustic, minimum maintenance trees, with a few main crops : Almond, Plum, Apple for example.
I hope to dig the holes over this winter, and fill them as and when I can. Apparently it is good for the ingoing tree to have its hole dug at least a year before.
I have heard that the whooping cough is possibly in the area, passing through again, and I can hear Ivor starting to cough, a deep, lungs-open cough. and again. hmmmmm