Herefordshire Walking Festival

The Herefordshire Walking Festival is taking place from the 16th until the 24th June. This looks like it's going to be a great opportunity to get out and about in the Herefordshire countryside next month and if the weather is anything like it is today, then you will see the county at its beautiful best. There are 60 guided walks taking place all over the county, so it's a great opportunity to see many different areas of the countryside. Walks are graded from Easy to Very Energetic, so there should be something for everyone.More information about the programme and what's happening where.

Herefordshire - Potato Country!

The local potato farmer, Ian, has 2,000 acres, some of which is adjacent to the garden. At the weekend the tractors arrived on mass for the planting of this year's crop.

This picture is taken from our garden looking south-west across the recently planted fields. There are two old oaks that really stand out now.



There were five tractors in total that spent the whole day on the one field.

Boxes upon boxes of seed potatoes arrived before loading onto the back of the tractors.

With all this planting going on, my grandson and I watered our vegetable patch. We have potatoes in here too!!