Stephen arrived as an unknown trainee with a classics degree AND from London. His one month internship became 2yrs 7 months and he took over the running of the farm shop and many other tasks. He showed us that a willingness to learn was more important than a degree in Ag/Hort. His presence around the farm will be sorely missed. We all wish him and Helene luck in their new adventure running an enterprise in Hastings and are honoured he feels inspired by his time here at the

I am up at 6am and just listening to a very tentative dawn chorus, don't blame them in this very inclement weather which defiantly feels more winter than Spring. Last Fri (6 April) was a day of full sunshine and everyone seemed more cheerful and uplifted with the suns rays. Is it my imagination that when I was young the dawn chorus was so loud it wok me up. I visited a friend early March , who lives in a mountain village in Spain. In the mornings I woke up listening to a