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cat frampton

2 years

29th dec 2015 - 28th dec 2022 A #drawing of the weather everyday. (Only 3 missed and put in later) 33 beautiful handmade #sketchbooks from @NantStudios filled with rain, snow, flood, storms, drought, ice and fog… I am actually pretty proud of this achievement #weatherjournal

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Ok, so yesterday I did a thing that my father would have thought madness. And I’m not 100% sure will work… I blocked a land drain so a wet field becomes wetter…

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Two things: 1. I am not responsible for what Brazilian farmers do, or what supermarkets ‘fancy up’ and sell 2. my choice is grow no food and watch the biodiversity tank on my land, or grow food and biodiversity at the same time with grazing animals So on I go, making good food.

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

1 year

When foodies, celebrity chefs and even some environmentalists say we should eat "pasture-fed" or "grass-fed" meat, this is what it means in practice. The most damaging of all food products, it cannot feed more than a tiny number without causing ecocide.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 months

Decisions decisions, this #naturefriendlyfarming lark is full of them! So. Do I protect this #oak seedling or not? Simple enough question but it requires a lot of thought. Why? Well here is a thread to explain…⬇️

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@cat_frampton

1 year

There appears to have been some sort of farming vs not farming debate this week. I didn’t watch, I was busy making my farm scruffy and growing food for people and nature. A choice I made because I can only take so much of entrenched ideological people talking at cross purposes.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

8 months

So… don’t know if you’ve noticed we’ve had a fair few storms recently in the uk… And some trees have come down. As a farmer who loves a bit of that mixed mosaic habitat stuff I thought I’d do a thread on how we decided what to do with wind blown trees here… ⬇️

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 months

Organic inspection today Passed So to celebrate I will do a short thread of good stuff seen this month on this farm 1) a orange tip butterfly on a cuckoo flower.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

3 years

Today I will have drawn 6 years of daily sketches of the weather! 6 years of sitting for at least 5 minutes (rain or shine) and drawing what outside did! I am amazed at myself! #weatherjournal #drawing @NantStudios (video of 28 sketchbooks in a row, one being flicked through)

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

This will also hold water on my land, in both flood and drought. And that wet land will mean I can grow plants for my cows to eat even in dry years (up to a point obviously) it worked well last year even with only one drain blocked.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Now what will this do? I hope it will slow the flow to a trickle, the wool will catch sediment and gummy up the pipe and ‘voila’ the bog will get boggier and the peat (and frogs) will be happier.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

This field will be a wonderful mix of habitats, woodland, scrub, bog, lush grassland and thin soil ant filled acidic pasture. It’s not bad biodiversity wise already, with extra added water in that marshy bit it will be even better!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

And did I mention it was free and needed no meetings? No finding quotes or keeping invoices or emails or forms to fill in. You could just do it. Anytime! And undo it anytime as well (that may require more work if it’s been a while!!)

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 months

I thought I’d revisit the idea of scrub on farmland but this time from a ‘why it’s good for your #farm ’ point of view rather than the ‘why nature loves it’ point which you see more often So #scrub … short bushy plants that birds love Often a dense thorny mix of shortish plants🔽

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

For all the talk about action needed and climate change and biodiversity crisis there seems to be little happening on most of the land near here except for meetings… (and money flowing in huge amounts just out of reach for most of us) And this was free and easy and will help!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

For historical context This was a bog in the 1930s with a small stream running along the drain line. You can see the full bog was a raised area by the stream/drain line, and the marshy land surrounded it. Various attempts have been made to drain it… None worked…

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

I used a fleece from last years shearing and a stick and a stone. Like some sort of magical incantation to make a bog! It was less magical in reality! I poked the fleece up the drain with the stick and held it in place with the stone.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

25 days

You know I bang on about scrub a lot? And how to create it in a useful way on farms? Well look at this! This is NOT a hedge. It’s an infield scrub patch and it’s glorious!!! Easy to grow, can be farmed around, sitting on a steep rocky bit of land and full of Food!! Love it!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Here. Have a field in May, full of flowers, has been grazed twice this season. Growing beef and biodiversity! Amazing!!! Who knew it was possible… And all we had to do to get this from a fairly dull pasture was change the grazing schedule and manage the thistle and bracken.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 years

Ok. So someone has been using their large platform to shout about how they have an idea to save the world and how somehow organic, pasture only farmers are the bad guys with our farms and how we farm them… So, here. Take a look. We really do have biodiversity and cows… 🧵

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 months

Yesterday in our (winter grazed) woods.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

A short thread on exclusion in landscape decisions and narratives that feels (but almost certainly is not) deliberate. It’s something that plays into the polarising chat about us v them & ‘bad farmers vs nature’ & is a odd ignoring of lived experience in a changing landscape ⬇️

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

@BlokeOfWords @PastureForLife @NFFNUK @FarmWilder Would I have to fill in a form…? Or attend a meeting? And yes, I’d love that. @DevonWildlife are welcome anytime. Fair warning though, we have lots of ‘nature stuff’ so they may be busy…

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@cat_frampton

4 months

I don’t know about you, but this is (one of) my idea(s) of heaven Very Lightly grazed three times this year already, and so Alive!! not all farming is done the same way… And I’m pleased we choose to #farm this way. Still can’t quite see what’s so wrong with the beef we grow?

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 years

I’ve just spent less than 5mins watching #houndtor #dartmoor from our house and I’ve seen 3 dogs running free. A collie, a lab and a small brown spaniel. All of those walkers have been past one of these signs. The #cuckoo is calling. Nobody cares. What is the point. @GoDartmoor

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

8 months

But mostly it’s so you get beetles. And birds And fungi All the nature! Helped! And in a biodiversity crisis and everything! And the satisfaction of knowing you’ve done a good thing!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 years

I have been quiet on here over the last few weeks. We have been holding mums hand. She died yesterday, in calm and quiet. A farmer A artist A kind, firm and fun woman. Anne Moreton. 1931-2021.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

9 months

#Tb free. Phew. Hate the testing. Hate the vet measuring (❤️our vet), Hate the stress, the looking for lumps, the running scenarios in my head for weeks beforehand, the if that cow gets it she’s shot here/sent off/will calve here then get shot or not, etc etc etc So relived.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 years

Finally… It’s time guys! It’s @AnneLouiseAvery ADVENT TIME! The best small stories and snippets! Wolf, old fox, a very kind bear… And she has a patron with more and recipes! Treat yourself! It’s a thing of kind wonder in a hard world.

Anne Louise Avery

@AnneLouiseAvery

2 years

1st Window. Wolf was giddy with excitement. That morning, an advent present had arrived from his ancient friend Ulfric. Two Räuchermännl, incense smokers from the Ore Mountains. One was the figure of a gentle old forester, the other a night watchman with greatcoat & lantern.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

7 months

@antonyjmccann Maybe we should fund actual real homes instead? That would be best. Homes. For the homeless and people who migrate here And jobs, and fund mental health/addiction/debt support? All that! How about that instead of crappy little tents that get kicked in by thugs on Friday nights?

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@cat_frampton

11 months

@BarristerSecret Will this do? Not walking, but….

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

3 years

@herdyshepherd1 Not only the lakes. Our farm was bare and open in the 1930s. (But we know it had a lot of pine pre ww1 for pit props) #dartmoor 1st photo 1930s aerial 2nd photo as close as possible from the ground. This summer It’s all gone wild here! (And I have no wish to tidy it up again!)

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 years

Did you know if you have cows and it’s a summer evening and you don’t use insecticides all the time you get heaps of dung beetles flying about and they are Magic?!!! I mean, just listen to that take off!

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@cat_frampton

1 year

Yesterday I stitched some tiny (<2cm) #swallows The fabric was a experiment using bleach and a sponge and a lot of care. Only needs framing now to be ready for @Groundswellaguk This ‘artist in residence’ lark is good for me! It really has got me working, thinking and making!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

3 months

In case it’s all a bit fraught with you, here, have 40 seconds of swallows and very contented cows. Tb test day, clear. Phew. Sheer luck tbh, but I’ll take it.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Ffs Woodpasture! Agroforestry #cowsintrees Once more my (final) BPS payment is a fight because the concept of grazing under trees is somehow, still, difficult to grasp! See that grass? It’s grazed! Often, just like all my other fields! (All my woods have been taken out, again)

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

3 months

Mid summer pastures. Farmed land, managed land, land with nature and food production layered, intertwined. Alive land. Buzzing. Not bad for a terrible weedy field with thin soil, a bracken problem, a lot of rocks, scrub and a high ph, with no inputs for years.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

7 years

@RobGMacfarlane Oystercatchers are the imbolc birds. St Brigit's birds. She used them to help sailors. Today they start to fly inland to nest. She is a very old 'Saint', old as the hills, older than the church. Today is her day too. Happy oystercatcher day!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 months

We don’t have the mass of flowers we had last year on the hawthorns, but it’s still not bad in this field! (Obviously I shouldn’t be showing stuff like this when I farm organic pasture fed beef… something to do with greenwashing a whole industry 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦‍♀️but…) it’s pretty! Enjoy!

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@cat_frampton

8 months

What we don’t do is burn the brash. (Logs yes, twiggy stuff no) We leave it to rot away. Given time it will completely disappear. Even huge trees will quietly crumble to earth, feeding the soil and housing beetles, birds and besties. Leave some dead wood behind! It’s great! ⬇️

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@cat_frampton

4 months

F’king hell This is INSANE! For a moment there I had hope How the ever loving F’k do you keep the mosaic open and the flowering pasture plants going over Five years without grazing? Agggghhhhhh! @JanetHughes ? This is madness! (And boy do I know how to create scrub mosaics!

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@cat_frampton

8 months

And if your looking for a cash/rational/non madwoman reason to do this… Where wood fungi and open ground fungi meet you get extra plant growth, free fungi fertiliser just by leaving some dead wood in a corner! ⬇️

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@cat_frampton

3 months

Back from @groundswell & mulling it all over Fun & as positive as ever But the talking raises hard questions & the work to be done looms large Yes we can fix a lot & science is amazing but… Drove home past huge warehouses, monocultures, half dead rivers & birdless land ⬇️

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@cat_frampton

2 months

Although if @SteveReedMP / @JanetHughes / @DefraGovUK could make a ‘grazed mosaic landscape payment’ it would be a game changer for nature. Please please please. It would mean so much to so many, both to farmers and to all the creeping, crawling, flying, walking, growing things.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Christ on a bike. Look, let’s just not do this. Let’s just live within the natural bounds of our planet and not pay huge companies vast amounts to f—k it up again/further! These companies have broken every toy they’ve played with, let’s not give them another to smash. Please.

Ryan Zinn

@ryanzinn

1 year

Pesticide companies are rushing to commercialize genetically engineered soil microbes. Not sure what that means for our food system?

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

8 months

Do you need to do anything at all with it? Do you have enough logs? Can you leave it as it is or do you need to do something with it? Leaving it alone is always best if you can. Why? Because it becomes the best habitat for all kinds of things and its easy and free….⬇️

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Well… That’s a big claim and seems a touch, um, off? ‘No nature on national parks’ because of sheep. And yet here I am, on a farm on a national Park with sheep and…. Kinda got a lot of biodiversity all over the place. It’s more the ‘how’ rather than the ‘what’ isn’t it!!!

Ben Goldsmith

@BenGoldsmith

1 year

Brittain pledged in Montreal to restore nature across 30% of our land and sea by 2030. The reason there is no nature in any of our national parks is sheep. Scotland announces lavish new subsidies for sheep. Go figure. We need new politicians.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 months

Want to see something brilliant? (It’s, typically for me, 💩 … but it’s Brilliant Poo because it’s OTTER poo!!!) Don’t say I don’t give you quality content! I mean, Does it get better than this? I don’t think so!! How Could It???!!!

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@cat_frampton

5 months

This morning was a good one. (& yes I know, by showing the world my @ofgorganic & @PastureForLife cattle looking all blissful and surrounded with nature I am apparently to blame for industrial meats issues. Something to do with either greenwashing or scale of production? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦‍♀️)

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Right. So this was surprisingly popular… Hello new followers. Expect: dung beetles, art raging against the patriarchy, racism and unkindness and weird bits of nature. And dyslexia Also… do you want to see more wool-stick-stone-water magic*? *not magic really… sorry.

cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Ok, so yesterday I did a thing that my father would have thought madness. And I’m not 100% sure will work… I blocked a land drain so a wet field becomes wetter…

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@cat_frampton

2 years

A couple of years ago I had to look up the name of the plant pignut, as I really hadn’t seen it here before… not in number, maybe a stray plant or two… #NatureFriendlyFarming and simple stuff like moving the cows more has changed all that! It’s a bit mind blowing tbh.

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@cat_frampton

8 months

Well, next question is what habitats can you make with it? This one is in our wet woods, so we cleared the electric fence, chopped it up a bit to make it manageable and dropped it in the stream Ta da! Leaky dam & extra wetland. Brash over the stream too for safe spawning areas⬇️

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@cat_frampton

7 months

@cyberteque Everyone deserves a decent home Everyone All people And the tent was almost certainly a teenager who couldn’t be arsed to tidy up their junk and did a ‘leaving a festival’ style decamp. And again EVERYONE DESERVES A DECENT HOME AND A CRAPPY SHIPPING CONTAINER ISN’T DECENT.

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@cat_frampton

4 months

See… I’m driving myself (and you) all mad with a simple decision about a single jay sown oak! And so… Slap a bit of weld mesh offcut around it, with some solid metal pegs we had lying about and leave it for another day! (We will probably get a decent guard for it tbh) ⏸️

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@cat_frampton

2 years

It rained!!! It’s wonderful! Nothing is better than a happy new calf, rain after a dry spell and #cowsintrees

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@cat_frampton

1 year

What we were up to on #dartmoor on Saturday. It was so easy! Thanks phill! No filling in forms or ticking boxes. Just planting some sweet chestnuts and protecting some Jay sown oaks. Not 100% sure the guards will stand up to big Trev the bull needing a scratching post but 🤞

Phil Sturgeon (BlueSky/Threads @philsturgeon)

@philsturgeon

1 year

Bored of the “farmers vs trees” rhetoric we’ve been out working with farmers who want more trees, “dot-planting” some “field trees”. They provide shade, shelter, and occasional sustenance for livestock. It’s all wins, so long as the guards do their job and keep the cows off!

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@cat_frampton

1 year

Notes from a denuded #Dartmoor farm You know what this field needs? Yep. More trees! (And no, I’m not kidding. South facing v thin soil, hot summers… we need more shade! But not too much or the grassland species will get shaded out, it’s all about finding the balance!)

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@cat_frampton

8 months

So it’s safe… But is it in a annoying place? Blocking a gate etc? Yes? clear it, use the logs, keep the brash in a huge heap to rot away and add biomass and fungal joy to the soil and help the bugs and birds Not in a annoying place? ⬇️

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@cat_frampton

7 years

Guys, Guys LOOK! I've managed TWO YEARS of daily #sketches in my #weatherjournal Two whole years! I've used a lot of paynes grey, 10 #sketchbooks and a Lot of pencils! 730 days of #art

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@cat_frampton

10 months

This weeks news from a #sheepwrecked #overgrazed nature denuded #Dartmoor Well… It’s all about fungi Beautiful autumnal #fungi And not the #AtlanticRainforest ones either (although we have plenty of them all over the place.) No! It’s my fav’ time of year! It’s #Waxcap time!⬇️

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@cat_frampton

7 years

Ta Da! My #lostwords needle wren is done! The whole work is about postcard size. (Unframed) Thank you @RobGMacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt for letting me play with your work! #Braille #wren #embroidery #art

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@cat_frampton

1 year

It’s #NatureFriendlyFarmingWeek Day 1 is ‘what is nature friendly farming’ There is a long and a short answer for that! Short answer: a farm that is not in a constant battle against nature, but instead is working in some way with it for the benefit of both.

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@cat_frampton

3 years

#Lambs Being all springlike! #dartmoor #farming

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@cat_frampton

4 months

Look if you want this stuff, you absolutely have to use herbivores It’s vital Like utterly vital that you graze the land and then take the livestock off it Graze and rest mid/low stocking density Take them off before they get bored and eat the scrub Bangs head on desk. Again.

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@cat_frampton

7 months

Yay… The ‘fly camping’ brigade has finally found us!!! A tent … left in the furthest corner of the wildest field… with all the signs of a truly terrible night out camping ‘enjoying nature’ and their ‘right to roam’⬇️

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@cat_frampton

1 year

And I would like to point out (because Twitter has no chill) I’m not having a go. I’m just worried and want to see a better mix of voices talking about land use, including those who know it’s history and those that know it’s ‘climate future’. We have to get better at this & fast.

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@cat_frampton

1 year

Todays #naturefriendlyfarmingweek prompt is species rich grasslands. Oy boy do I have some of those! And I love them! They are the basis of my whole farm, doing all the good work and helping me produce really good food! And in May they are PRETTY!

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@cat_frampton

7 years

I've been given a copy of @RobGMacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt Lost Words It's a wonderful book, go get it! (This wren is mine, in homage!)

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@cat_frampton

8 months

Other habitat creation options are available. Brash heaps, dry deadwood pile, whole tree left to quietly rot, tree not dead so regrowing from a down position…the options are huge! ⬇️

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@cat_frampton

4 months

Oh I forgot… The landscape habitat flow. Sigh. So we want to connect habitats like twisting ribbons across the land. And this top corner of field could aid that if we added some trees. Red dot = seedling Green lines = potential wood/scrub corridor.

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@cat_frampton

5 months

Our #pasturefed #organic beef and sheep farm, (although apparently the worst thing I could do with this land🙄) seems ok… the sheer number of flowers, spiders and beetles please me! I think I will continue doing what we do! It’s loud with life and worth celebrating!

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@cat_frampton

3 years

Nothing like shouting at the weather lady on @BBCSpotlight It’s a drought And she is talking about a ‘risk of showers’ as if that’s a bad thing! Maybe the word ‘chance’ would be better? This ‘sun is good, rain is bad’ attitude drives me crazy!! No rain =no food! Ah, rant over!

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@cat_frampton

1 year

Todays @NFFNUK #NatureFriendlyFarmingWeek prompt is farm ecosystems So, farming with nature means you get to thinking about the whole farm as many ecosystems all intertwined, and that it is also part of the bigger ecosystems that surround it. And what you do affects them all.

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@cat_frampton

2 years

@angelastradling @RichStockdale_ @B_Strawbridge No active nests? In there? Now? I call liar. I’d say wait until the winter to minimise the damage but they would still be gone and that’s damage done. How horrible.

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@cat_frampton

8 months

First decision (the biggest one) Is it safe? Will it hurt others if it falls further, is it on the electric lines? is it on the road? All that. Not safe? Can you clear it or do you need a professional? Do whatever is needed to make it safe. It’s Safe?⬇️

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@cat_frampton

6 years

I finished this today, by adding in the flying sparrow, it had been bugging me because the balance was wrong, but it just needed a ‘lift’! A ridiculous amount of thought for such a seemingly simple picture! #embroidery #art #birdart #birds #sparrows #contemporaryembroidery

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@cat_frampton

3 months

This doesn’t include the bramble protected trees , hawthorn, blackthorn or elder. I have a LOT of trees coming into what was a very open hill farm. See the difference from 1945 and now. That’s why I have to be careful.

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@cat_frampton

1 year

Now this is in no way deliberate, I’m sure. But it shows the closed world that most ‘talkers of conservation’ operate in If the farmers/landowners that put the time & effort into making a place utterly blissful are ignored, pushed aside & not asked advice what are we loosing?⬇️

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@cat_frampton

3 years

@howemill Here, a bunch of women who spent (spend) their lives #farming Women farm Always have, alway will There is nothing really male about farming. (Except the badly designed tools, made only for big hands! cattle ear taggers etc) (& yes, that barn in the last photo did fall down!)

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@cat_frampton

2 years

About three months later than usual we got our #cows out into the winter woods today. (11 acres with glades full of green, part coppiced, ex tin mine, only 6 cows with hay fed in barn) They will stay there until late March depending on the spring weather. Bliss! #cowsintrees

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

6 years

Into the fourth year of my #weatherjournal Daily drawings of the weather Started on the 29/12/15 ( I didn’t start on New Year’s Day, because that new year stuff is bound to fail, but just drawing today -repeated- works for me!) #dartmoor #draw365 #draweveryday #art #sketchbook

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@cat_frampton

4 months

But, Those new woodland fairytales like ‘where bracken lives woods should return’ aren’t always right This field has rare fungi in it in the autumn, and a lot of plants other than just boring old grass So I have a duty of care not to shade out the rare stuff. But one tree?⬇️

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@cat_frampton

3 years

@iSmashFizzle hi... I seem to remember you appreciate theses.... First #lambs of the year, born last night. (Hence 1 on their sides) Give them a week and lamb races will be happening! With Easter best wishes from our corner of the world.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

Look, I know Dartmoor has massive problems but for the love of little apples please realise that a stock photo of ‘sheep on Dartmoor’ used in the media is usually a photo taken from a carpark As is the one in the tweet below The damage visible is from people enjoying the moor!

Ben Goldsmith

@BenGoldsmith

1 year

You need look no further than the photo which adorns this article to see that Dartmoor National Park is an ecological wreckage. Britain is a rich country. There is no reason why we should not have nature in our national parks.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 months

Now, the payments have changed & nature recovery is a whole thing, (the SFI for scrub creation is MAD, no grazing. A truly stupid rule) but EVEN WITHOUT THE MONEY scrub is worth adding into your land Find corners, edges, bits that are scary steep and let them go wild! Dare ya.

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 months

If I get told by someone who works for an greenwashing company that they are sensing some ‘friction’ or ‘resistance’ from me… That’s a good thing right? I’m getting the distinct impression that I’m thought of as ‘difficult’ Excellent Onwards!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

6 months

CUCKOO!!!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 years

Not 5 minutes into getting let into this fresh ‘grazing’ and the #cowsintrees browsing starts. we are pasture for life certified but this tree is growing in and as part of our pasture so it’s fine!! It’s just another plant!!! @howemill @PastureForLife @FarmWilder @NFFNUK

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

There has been a lot of ‘chatter’, sound and fury about grazing on Dartmoor this month A lot of ‘sheep are bad’ talk A lot of farmers/ecologists/government are The Bad Guys… All that But as ever it’s way more complicated than the simple solutions ecologists/farmers say 1/10

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 years

Yes it’s all rain and mud and snotty colds and stress but… After 39 weeks, 4 tests, 6 reactors and a lot more grey hairs… we went #tbfree today!!!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

2 months

A thread about a sketch, two #oaks and some history Yesterday I went for a wander, and I took my sketchbook with me Stopped at the #Leighon blackhill wood edge and #sketched a tree It was lovely old #Dartmoor oak Then I wandered on & drew another next to the field wall⬇️

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 years

When it wasn’t sleeting or snowing, today was pretty! Our tiny patch is the wooded ‘messy’ bit down in the valley I’m heading towards. I figured out today our farm is 15%wood, 10% scrub & wood pasture, 3% Rhos pasture & that we have approx 70 pasture trees Cont... @FarmWilder

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

7 years

My #lostwords #wren is done Now all I have to do is stitch a heap of twigs and #Braille . #embroidery #contemporaryembroidery #birdart

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 months

And what about climate resilience What about heat baked or washed away soil? What about that shade and shelter for the things that may need it? A oak will take years to grow anyway… (But it may grow huge eventually) And an open grown oak is a marvellous thing Right Keep it!⬇️

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 months

4) Violet oil beetles. Weird alien beetles that are both odd and wonderful!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 years

It’s #NationalMeadowsDay so, here is one of mine. It’s left to grow all summer and eaten to the bone all winter. Seems ok. Not a monoculture anyway. @PastureForLife @NFFNUK #farming #dartmoor #hillfarm For some truly excellent meadows follow @hilltopfarmgirl & @RebeccaHosking

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 months

3) A particularly fine dung beetle (Geoptrudes mutator) With phoretic mites as a added bonus!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

1 year

You don’t need to be a farmer to sign this, the more the merrier. There is a quiet swell of farmers who want to do the right thing for nature and food production. If you believe they should be helped and paid to do so (with the money they were promised) please share and sign.

James Robinson

@JRfromStrickley

1 year

I need your help! Upland/marginal farms are being closed out of Higher Tier schemes, there's an 80% drop in the number of agreements being approved I've started a petition for farmers like me who are fed up with being left behind Please sign & retweet!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

5 months

2) otter scat Look at those little bones!!

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cat frampton

@cat_frampton

4 years

I’ve had a block. It’s meant I couldn’t focus on art and ideas dried up. But on Sunday I got a spare bit of time and just though sod it. I bleached some clouds onto a blue fabric, then some embroidered tiny stitches and... #skylark #art And done. (Bird is 2cm across in total)

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