It has been a huge sense of relief being able to offer the herd the dream. Access to hard ground to walk on and land to roam. Watching them flow as a unit, making sure they are all as one as they explore new territory, new grass, new hedgerow (what is left!). Philly, our sheep, has moved paddocks...she is yet to join the herd.... I am trying daily to move her into their space but as yet she seems comfortable where she is... we are on the look out for a sheep friend for her, whom I hope will show up imminently. We have been given six hens by my dad.... love their gentle chatter. Something very meditative about it. The smallholding is slowly coming alive with domestic life adding to the song of the birds that we are very blessed to have on our doorstep.
There is of course constant checking in on how we can offer better to the animals and I am greatly looking forward to having access to the barn area for the herd as the winter gets EVEN wetter and no doubt colder. We have to wait for the previous owner to move his horses and kit before we can do that though, so embracing patience as a virtue!
I am logging the state of the fields - obviously clay is fun to be on with lots of horses! One minute dry and cracking, the next deep soggy mud.... but I/we wonder whether once upon a time there was enough diversity on the land that it offered what the animals needed and it perhaps did not get so wet.... when it had more trees, more shrub's etc.... we shall see what Nature has to teach us in the coming years.
For now, I am just hugely grateful the grass that exists is thick! Never had that before! SO happy and grateful for that.
Love, Light, Laughter and Peace to you all.
From all of us at
Learning to be again
Mere, Wilts
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