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October 2025
The vegetable garden has been a bit neglected at Rhemore this year. It’s been much harder to get down there because of the building works. We’ve also had no live-in WWOOF volunteers to help as there’s been nowhere to accommodate them. It felt much wetter this summer than usual, with far more slugs, but when…
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September 2025
Many of the trees have been badly damaged by August’s storm Floris at Rhemore. The leaves are falling as I type and there is an eerie sense of autumn that is not autumn as the gutters needing clearing at the same time as the grass needs cutting. Ever since the storm we’ve been eyeing the…
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August 2025
We are still in the midst of farm building renovations here at Rhemore. he veg garden is at peak production and the polycrub is bursting with life. We are clearing the hay field of bracken ready for hay making and Thomas Coope has nearly finished the deer fence around the top half of the croft.…
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June 2025
People are always interested in our cow collars. We’ve had them for three years and they’ve proven really useful. They’re expensive, but cheaper than replacing the old and broken fencing on most of our croft. I heard about them at an online seminar on conservation grazing before we got the cows. I was intrigued, but, like many people,…
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May 2025
It’s all go on the croft this month so I need to be brief. There has been a flurry of spring activity as we’ve made the most of the good weather to sort out the veg patches, digging in seaweed and manure and start off the seedlings and the polycrub is now full life (including an…
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April 2025
Spring has sprung at Rhemore. The peach tree in the polytunnel is in bloom, the tomato, cucumber and chilli seedlings are coming through, and the kale and chard plants I kept back last season are now in full growth. The grass cannot grow quick enough for the cows, but a sunny spell, as I write,…
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March 2025
Notes from a Wild Croft March Things are busy as ever on the croft. The kale in the polytunnel from last autumn has kicked back into life, the strawberry and raspberry plants have started to grow and blossoms have appeared on the peach tree. I have taken this as a signal to start this year’s veg from…
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February 2025
December wasn’t an easy month for the animals at Rhemore. The relentless rain and wind followed by a harsh cold snap in January took its toll on the cows and they got through a good proportion of the winter store of hay. Seven Greylag geese took up residence in the field in front of the…
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December 2024
It is hard to believe it’s only a year ago we took our first animals to the slaughter and I wrote about the pride and pleasure (as a former vegetarian) of producing good meat. So much has happened in our lives and on the croft since then. The sheepskins we so carefully salted and trimmed…
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November 2024
We eventually recovered from last month’s haymaking which was mainly done by hand. I’ve managed to find a tedder (a hay turner) that can by drawn by an electric quad so we won’t be turning the hay with rakes next year and after reading last month’s column, Alasdair has reassured me that doing things by…
our woodland croft on the Morvern Peninsula
