Higham Wood North Fife

Higham Wood North Fife, North facing at Ballinbreich. A wonderful stand of mainly Beech and Ash trees, providing shelter to roe deer, buzzards and badgers. I drive by daily and covet the thousands of self seeded saplings which are ideal log sized fuel for my domestic wood burning stove.

 Opposite lie the remains of Ballinbreich Castle.  More.

Newburgh March 19th 2013

Newburgh March 19th 2013, that's the snow back on again particularly on the higher ground. When  the wind is off the East in winter it can be severe, in the summer we get a haar, a coastal fog from the sea, cooling, blocking the sunlight. Right now it's snow, how I long for normal prevailing winds!

Higham woods, home to Roe deer and nesting buzzards.

 

The snowfall isolates the tree forms revealing kinds of, size and the fallen.

The woods of Logie farm and recently planted larch in the foreground of Ballinbreich farm. they all form corridors  for the Roe Deer and much else.

Tayview September 14th 2012 North Fife

Tayview September 14th, cloudy and windy day drying the grain fields and then the sun came out fully.

The same field earlier this year.

Combine coming up to the turn at Ballinbreich Farm, North Fife.

Shredding the straw, rather than lay the straw for collection and future use as bedding etc. This way humus is restored back to the soil maintaining a more healthy balance on a bacterial micro-organism level.

Every couple of cuts the barley is off-loaded into trailers. My feeling is the yield is a good one in weight though the malting quality maybe marginal.