Sally Vincent’s Diary of Food and Life on a Devon Farm.
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Leftover Chicken Pie
A delicious smell of chicken stock floats into the study as I write, the very last vestiges of a delicious local free range bird I bought from the Pollards last week. We’re hard to please when it comes to chickens having spent so many years raising table birds ourselves. But this was as good as…
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Summer Gardens
Weeks, months have flown by as gardens, gardeners and gardening dominate my life! No time to write, no time to read, just “weed, weed, weed”! This year the National Garden Scheme declared June 15th & 16th would be their first National Garden Festival Weekend. It put us all in a flurry; some 800 gardens would…
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Metamorphosis
dragonfly from Paul Vincent on Vimeo.
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A June Garden
garden June 13 from Paul Vincent on Vimeo.
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April 2013: Surely the Coldest Spring
Mid April and still we wait for the gentle warmth of spring. For weeks now, just as we looked forward to the end of a long hard winter, a searing east wind has held us in its grip. It howls through the valley, over the hilltops to the sea, across the Moor carrying lashing rain…
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March 2013 The Chain of Events: One Small Farmer’s Perspective
Gradually the land is draining, flood water subsides, our barns dry out, the stream slows to its usual sombre pace. Rain, gentle now, wraps us in a fine mist, the air is warmer, the wind has dropped. Maybe spring will arrive after all. Snowdrops fade as primroses and daffodils push their way through the sodden…
