Pedicure for the Sheep!

Willowbrook Farm layers.

Hampton Gay, UK.

Lined up for the potato sack race.

I came in second place overall in the first annual gardeners olympics!

Abbey Home Farm fields.

Neat and Tidy!

View from my bedroom window at Abbey Home Farm.

Cirencester, UK.

Foxcombe Hill

Foxcombe Hill Farm

Just south of Oxford.

Farm Photos

Well, it is likely that nobody checks up on this site anymore because our bike trip is over- and well, we haven’t written anything for a while. However, I thought I would post of few pictures from the farms that I have worked on in England. I have ended my WWOOFing journey and left my wellies (rain boots) at the last farm (although I think that was a premature decision because it is VERY rainy here). There have definitely been ups and downs, but I thought my photos could serve to highlight the three different farms I have been on.
-Noami

Oxford, the Dorset Heath and Swanage Cliffs

outside of Keble Chapel

Oxford bus outside some fancy-pants college

Dorset Heath!

Dorset Heath- dying invasive bracken in front, heather in back

Corfe Castle

the cliffs at Swanage

I’m not sure if people are still going to check up on this site, but I figured I might as well post some photos from Oxford, as well as my most recent trip to the south of England for my course orientation. We visited the Dorset Heath as well as the cliffs at Swanage, although we spent a disappointing amount of time actually walking through the nature reserves (I can’t bring myself to call what we did hiking).  But they did feed us an awful lot.  This week is ‘Fresher’s Week’ for me, which is seems to just be an extended orientation program with a few too many organized social events, but it has been good fun so far.  Last night I finally went inside Keble College, and had dinner in the massive hall. Apparently, it was built to be one brick longer than the hall at Christ Church (competitive much??), which many people might recognize from the Harry Potter movies. As it turns out, Keble originally was supposed to be where they filmed the movies, but Keble turned them down because it would be too time intensive. Either way, its a really beautiful place.

Noami is off farming near Cirencester now, about 50 miles away, and I am hoping to visit next week.  If she had internet access, I suspect she would say hello to everyone.

Baker St Scramble

To conclude our bicycle journey, here is Jared working on reassembling our bikes on Baker St.Now I have found myself a pair of Wellingtons (Jared’s roommates had not heard of rain boots) and I am off to a farm tomorrow.