There is a reason haymaking dominated the rural year to the extent it did, and it is not simply that animals needed feeding.
The requirement was absolute. Livestock kept through…
Every terraced landscape is an enormous piece of engineering built by hand over generations, and every element of it answers a specific problem with a slope. Here are seventeen.
1.…
There is a type of building standing in fields, farmyards and the grounds of old houses that most people pass without knowing what it was for.
It is frequently round…