Wednesday 6 July 2016

A day at the farm


Today we visited a place called Shore Community farm.  It was right in the middle of a part of urban Manchester so the land must have been worth a lot.  It was a somewhat ramshackle place but quite together in its own way.


There was a field full of thistles and docks that two people were trying to clear with a long handled shears (one end) and a grass cutter at the other end.  It looked like very heavy back breaking work. I wondered why they couldn’t get a tractor for the afternoon that would probably do the trick in just a few hours…… but maybe they like doing it on their own.  I can really appreciate that sentiment.

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