This #treeweek we'll be planting willow, alder, and crab apples in existing hedgerows and in the middle of some fields. These will grow to provide shelter from bad weather and sun and an extra food source for both our sheep and the wildlife that lives here with us.

As well as benefitting the environment through carbon sequestration and shelter and food for wildlife, they're also great at providing shelter and food for the sheep!

Tree week celebrates all things trees, and marks the start of the tree planting season here in the UK. We're lucky to have lots of trees on our small farm - some (very!) old and others we have planted in the last few years. Some form parts of hedgerows and field margins, and others small woodland.

Sounds like a good excuse to start another project! I love the leaf pattern

These look lovely!

It was nice to see some up there - and they certainly didn't seem to mind the negative wind chill! That hardy native breed advantage making itself clear. Though by the looks of it she had missed shearing last year, so perhaps extra warm...