Wild garlic flowers just beginning to bloom The sun is shining and its a beautiful spring day - the grass is growing and everywhere is looking green and verdant. As we keep horses on our land adjacent to the yurt camp, we have to maintain the pastures on a regular basis. Horses are reputed to be the farmers bane, as they will not graze where they dung and will only eat the sweetest grass leaving patches of weeds. This means that we regularly roll, harrow and fertilise our fields and rest them to allow the grass to replenish and rejuvenate. This week we have had the fertiliser spread on the lake field and the horses are taking a holiday in the top barn field. Grass can be the enemy of small ponies such as our shetland pony, Ellie. During the peak growing season she has to live on a small (and unfertilised) patch or "sin bin". This keeps her weight down and allows us to prevent a common disease in ponies called laminitis. Ellie however is not always complicit in our attempts to keep her in her diet paddock and is often trying to work out new ways of how to escape!!
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