It always surprises me how hard some people find it to identify these widely-grown crops, even those who live in the countryside. They are all …
Tag: arable field
Tonight I visited one of the many Iron Age hillforts in the local area. The one atop Pilsdon Pen (one of the highest hills in…
I’ve long been fascinated by farmers’ fields, both as objects of man-made beauty, and photographic subjects. There are lots of arable and pasture fields near my…
A study in green – ripening wheat on Salisbury Plain. A stop by the side of the A303 (surely one of the most rewarding roads…
Most people drive up and down the A303 oblivious to the wonderful chalk country either side of the road. But I have to make a…
Cultivated poppies on the Salisbury Plain near Winterbourne Abbas – another of my A303 series that belies the traffic roaring past, unseeing. Abrash is the…