In 2011 we helped the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to interview local farmers at a Memory Day in Pendeen. The aim of this was to capture the local farming community’s knowledge of rough land management practices and how these have changed over the years. These included memories of wildlife in the area, stories of grazing the […]
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45 years of memories of Frenchman’s creek
Do you have a special place where you go… to contemplate… to get space… to remember… to appreciate beauty…to gain perspective? It’s funny how places change with time and experience, collecting together memories and growing older. In this short story Brindley, a farmer near Manaccan, recalls his memories of Frenchman’s creek. From 45 years ago, […]
Some more Cornish dialect for you
Descriptive words Cabby: Dirty or Messy Braave: Good Licker: Something really big Abroad: Open as a window, door etc Skerrick: Something small, a wisp Smeech: A small pan, something burning Scat: 1. A tear or rip […]
Sitting on a cow! Photos from another era…
There’s not much that hasn’t changed in dairy farming… the breed of milking cow, the number of cows on each farm and how the cows were milked. Traveling back in time, not only would dairy cows have all had names, Daisy and Buttercup being common choices, but they would also have had horns! These beautiful […]
Lets celebrate Cornish Dialect…
There’s something wonderful about Cornish dialect… And speaking to Cornish farmers has revealed a whole range of interesting words and phrases. Of course these can vary hugely depending on where you are in Cornwall. I am currently making a short film with some of these in… but until then here is some local dialect for […]
Water colours in ‘Flat field’
Here’s another post and beautiful water colour by artist Louise McClary… Catching the last of the sun last week I decided to visit Halonoweth farm to my favorite field that overlooks the creek. We have ( that’s me and the farmers) always named it “Flat Field ” now with the tythe map we now know […]
When the ivy takes over- down on Polgrean Farm
The last couple of months have been busy collecting images, film and old photographs from Cornish farmers to make a series of ‘digital stories’ for the project. On my last trip to Polgrean farm at Gunwalloe John Hocking and myself explored an old cottage hidden in the valley at the bottom of Johns farm. This […]
Artist Louise McClary spending time on Halonoweth Farm
Louise McClary (http://louisemcclary.com) is an artist who lives and works near Manaccan. Louise attended our oral history training last week and is now armed with a recorder to go and interview a local farming family she knows. Here is a slideshow of photographs Louise has sent over with descriptions- Weighing the cows before the butcher […]
A tanka poem by Sally Payne
There are lots of ways of creatively interpreting the land around us; from photography to sculpture, film to creative writing, storytelling to painting. Here is a brilliant tanka poem written by Sally Payne a local creative writer: Farm Grating vision, land Rough load ploughed with grave burden Ruddy wrecked, labour Old wrinkled hand of weathered […]
