QUIET CORNER FARM APPLE JUICE Patricia Thompson moved with her husband, Brian, to the secluded little Henstridge holding of Quiet Corner Farm 40 years ago. It included an orchard of about eighty apple trees. She has worked hard over the seasons to be a good caretaker of the land she tends. The orchards now comprise [...]
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DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman QUIET CORNER FARM APPLE JUICE
Monday, June 21st, 2010DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman RAISING APPLE SEEDLINGS
Friday, May 28th, 2010RAISING APPLE SEEDLINGS Orchards accompanied every farmstead and small holding in the Olden Days. The seasonal pressing of apples for cider and juice was part and parcel of normal life. Back then, leftover ‘mash’ (pulped apples) was fed to pigs or spread in odd field corners to over-winter and, the next spring, see what came [...]
Read More »19 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SPREADING THE MASH
Monday, October 19th, 2009My van can smell of various things depending on the time of year and what’s been transported in the back. Right now, when you open the door, a sweet residual smell of apples perfumes your nose. That’s because I had a dozen bags of apple mashings in there over night, only unloading and barrowing them [...]
Read More »20 March 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman LOUISE ‘TEDDY’ EDWARDS OF NIRVANA, POST OFFICE LANE, LIGHTHORNE, WARWICKSHIRE, 27.02.1918 – 27.12.1994
Friday, March 20th, 200920 March 2009 LOUISE ‘TEDDY’ EDWARDS OF NIRVANA, POST OFFICE LANE, LIGHTHORNE, WARWICKSHIRE. 27.02.1918 to 27.12.1994 “It’s the stored memories that make death irrelevant. As long as memories are active that person goes on and on and never dies.” John Cox, Shaftesbury, 20th March 2009. Louise Cox was born Louise Thurlbourne-Edwards in Hockley Heath, Birmingham [...]
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