Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Welcome to Relaxed Farming

Uprights At this stage the spikes are now in the ground and the first uprights in place. Some partially rotted straw from the compost heap has been wheel-barrowed into the middle ready to be dug in. You can see our old barn at the far end - this was demolished and rebuilt to give us nice dry housing for the animals and a store for tools and feed. One of the problems we have living on the top of Bodmin Moor is that some of our land is old mining spoil (the waste tipped after the tin and copper had been removed) and if you look carefully you will see that some of the uprights are not quite as upright as they might be - as the spikes went into the ground some of them hit large rocks which made the spikes tilt to an angle. Apart from digging up all the rocks (and some of them were huge) there was little else we could do - we decided most of the uprights were vertical enough and should still be okay to hold the top frame pieces in place!! (Fingers crossed.)