It’s farming Jim, not as we know it
Two images of the changing face of agriculture in Kent. I’ve no idea what’s happening in the main blip but it seems rather industrial. Anyone know?
Even the extra shows how Kent’s traditional garden of England crops of orchards have been swapped for vines. And there are still remnants of a previous farming system with the oast houses associated with hop gardens which used to be so common around Kent and Sussex.
An absolutely brilliant day out in the Vale of Kent and the Greensand ridge with Erika and Jonathan. Not too far, about 5 1/4 miles along a route we’ve not walked for a good few years. How it has changed. All this mechanised farming, more vines and berry fruits, less arable and salad crops.
We started with an excellent coffee at a new place for us, drive to Linton, walked to the River Beult and found a random picnic bench by the river for lunch, walking on through and increasingly changed agricultural landscape.
They came back for dinner and a lovely evening of conversation which ranged from their trip to the Baltic states, ours to Shetland, meme coins, literature, geography, the shipping forecast, families, birds, flowers wildlife, podcasts and a whole host more
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