Spring 2026 has arrived

 

Spring has arrived and it already feels like summer.  Our lovely wwoofers (www.wwoof.org.uk) are arriving at Ale Farm.  We have gone from wearing winter coats to walk through bluebell woods to looking for shade in full summer clothes!

So far this year's wwoofers have come from France, Lithuania (via Germany), Lebanon (via London), the Netherlands, Belgium, London and Manchester.

Maisie, our first returning wwoofer, took on the challenge of clearing an area at the bottom of the orchard.  She handed the baton onto several other wwoofers who have carried on her good work.

French brothers Owen and Melvyn built a dead hedge in the cleared land and installed a proper gate into the Secret Garden.

They also went on to dig our new wildlife pond. There'll be more about that in a later post.

We're really enjoying hosting our wwoofers and the land at Ale Farm is showing great improvements already.

We've had fun times away from the farm too - beach walks, town visits, country walks, pub visits, etc.

There are some very interesting conversations too.

We really enjoy it when wwoofers cook something for us!

Of course there are the endless walnuts to shell.  We had a bumper crop last year.

Roll on the rest of the summer.