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Apple Pressing 2018
Everyone seems to have an abundance of apples this year, many of which have ripened early. If you still have apples, our pressing day this year is on [..]
Apple Pressing 2017
Another year in the round and another apple pressing day. This year it’s on Saturday 14th October, 1-4pm at Greenholme, Bewcastle. Everyone welcome. Bring your own apples if [..]
Apple Day 2016
Well what a great time we had! Juice everywhere, sticky fingers, mucky clothes, mashed apple and wasps! It was good to welcome new faces as well as old. [..]
Apple Pressing Day – 1st October 2016
Saturday, 1st October, 2pm to 5pm, apple juicing at Greenholme, Bewcastle. Bring along your surplus apples that you would like to be juiced, and some clean containers to [..]
A success at last? Learning how to sing
Trying to listen to our land and find ways of enalbing it to sing while providing for us is proving to be difficult. Constant rain, heavy waterlogged but [..]
1st Swallows
Our first swallows arrived today, Thursday 16th April, exactly the same date as last year (2014), and 3 days earlier than 2013 (19th April). Today also heralded the [..]
Easter Hillwalking
There is a mother on a hill. Her brow and back are bent like haggard wiry grass on a wild, wet moor. She stands in a dark place [..]
Solar Eclipse 20th March 2015
The view of the eclipse from Greenholme, where we had an eclipse magnitude of 0.93, or 93% of the sun eclipsed at around 09.35GMT.
Solargraph
A solargraph is a photograph of the sun as it courses across the firmament. It is usually taken using a pinhole camera with exposure times varying from 1 [..]
Open Day 2014
The 19th July seems like a long time ago now, but we remain humbled that so many made the effort to come despite the rather damp weather. Folk [..]