Fencing always seems to be an almost never-ending task, but happily we’ve broken the back of the bits that had to be done before we started grazing the cattle. Ever since I started on this more regenerative style of farming, I wanted to get the mains powered electric fencing around all of the farm. So, when we build new fences, we remove the barbed wire and replace it with plain wire on top of the netting fences.
As I do this and then join the sections up, it means I have access to the mains power around more of the farm and don’t have to rely on the solar energisers. Those mobile energisers are great, but a ring main of electric is easier. Just hook on and it is live!
Hanging gates is the other thing of course. We are widening all gateways to fifteen feet when it is appropriate and I also fit easy to open latches, so my wife can open them from her horse and my son and nephews can open the gates if they help me on a weekend. A swinging gate seems like such a simple thing, but the time you can waste on a gate that doesn’t swing or doesn’t latch properly is time you will never get back. So, armed with some big posts and my post rammer, we’ve got a few more gates to go. All gates swinging and latching by the end of the year? We’ll try!
Coming out of another long winter and looking forward to warmer, longer, brighter and drier days, I always look forward to spring. To new life and the countryside changing colour. The birds start singing outside our bedroom window in the early morning and even though we know it will happen, it gives you a kind of reassuring feeling. It is therefore easy to imagine why
people worshipped the sun and spring. They celebrated the changing of the seasons marked by the equinox and I suppose worshipped not only the seasons, but the weather too.
Now, I’m not going to get into any worshipping rituals just at the moment (!), but I am looking forward to Easter. Being late this year, it will be a chance to mark the end of lambing and cel- ebrate with family as we look forward to the summer. Although some spring rain would be nice, lets hope it’s not a wash out. We really don’t want that!
Rich, Risbury 89
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