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The Prince of Wales visits Lower Blakemere Farm, a Duchy Focus Farm, to learn more about how the multigenerational farm has refined regenerative farming practices and farm diversification as part of its journey to net zero, in Hereford, England -January 28th 2025.

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The Prince of Wales Visits Duchy Focus Farm In Hereford To Explore The Future Of Farming On The Road To Net Zero

Prince William during a visit to Lower Blakemere Farm, a Duchy Focus Farm in Hereford, to learn more about how the multigenerational farm has refined regenerative farming practices and farm diversification as part of its journey to net zero on 28 January 2025 in Hereford, England.

Lower Blakemere Farm is one of the Duchy of Cornwall's seven Focus Farms, an initiative designed to share knowledge and experiences of the transition to greener farming practices.

📸: Jacob King - WPA Pool / Getty Images

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Prince William visiting Lower Blakemere Farm in Hereford on January 28, 2025.

[bonefall]

Ok, im back with more names. The bog was hard to find, so I’m basing it off of the area of Carrington Moss, which is in the area I think BB takes place if I’m reading the maps right

Also bc we’re talking about Shadowclan

Ok, so the names

First of all: Fen, Bog, Mire, and Peat, all names for this biome. There’s also marls, a rock found in the area

Again, I’ll only be using names I don’t remember being in the series (the obvious one being moss. It’s all moss)

Asphodel (bog asphodel), rosemary (bog rosemary), cranberry, cotton (cotton sedge), blackberry, bluebell, foxglove, iris, a plant called Mad-dog weed, also known as a water-plantain, admiral (red admiral), pipit (meadow pipit), partridge (gray partridge, but very rare) bullfinch, and bunting (reed bunting)

Close but you're a bit off-- Carrington Moss is, confusingly, an example of a moorland!

Specifically it is a lowland peat bog. Upland peat, lowland peat, blanket bog, dune heath, upland heath, lowland heath, maritime heath... all of these biomes are completely different, but all of them are referred to as moorlands.

Also, those names for the biome are not interchangeable. Those all have more specific meanings;

Fen: An alkaline wetland. Fed by fresh groundwater or runoff, these biomes are a lot richer in nutrients and the water is higher in oxygen. Because of this, they often have a much larger diversity of plant and animal species. Fens can sometimes become bogs over time.

Bog: An acidic wetland Thick moss, lots of dead matter, mostly a result of still water building up over many many years. Since the water is low in oxygen, you won't find many fish in these, and generally bogs are home to specialists who can handle the conditions.

Mire: Wet, muddy land that's hard to walk on Only synonymous with "bog" if you're using it in the informal sense of "being bogged down," not in the ecological sense-- a bog is a mire, but not all mires are bogs. You could have a mire made out of glue, tar, or caramel, if you were writing a really cool fantasy series.

Peat: A dark brown material formed from partially decayed plant matter. Essentially what happens when the top layer of moss or grass dies in a really wet place, is quickly grown-over by living plants, and then rots slowly underneath. A VERY important component of a bog, extremely useful as fuel.

For ShadowClan I'm actually modelling wetlands in and around Delamere Forest, specifically, because I ran into the issue you did of the British-English dialect having a lot of "overlap" in region names and scientific terms. If you want to go scouring for cool prefixes to suggest, you can check out Blakemere Moss, Black Lake, Mouldsworth Gap, and Abbots Moss.

Most of the plants you mentioned still grow here, though! Some other fun prefixes I've been thinking of though;

Lime (type of tree, no relation to citrus!)

Linden (another name for lime, which there are two types of)

Sphagnum (Important type of moss)

Snipe (type of bird that picks up its babies and flies away with them)

Coot (funny name bird)

Chaser (type of dragonfly)

Podzol (ashy soil found in places where plant decomposition is inhibited)

Quiver or Quake (Describing the movement of thick moss that has formed over the surface of stillwater, Q is a really rare letter in WC names)

Vetch (Common type of plant with a name I think is really cool)

Nymph (Baby dragonfly)

Skater, Skimmer, or Strider (Bug that hunts by gliding across the surface of water)

[world-of-wales]

The Prince of Wales visits Lower Blakemere Farm in Herefordshire to learn about how a multigenerational farm has diversified as part of its journey to net zero (Photo Courtesy : Alamy) | 28 JANUARY 2025

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Prince William reveals a health update about 'poor' Prince Harry

Prince William reveals a health update about ‘poor’ Prince Harry Prince William has just given an update regarding Prince Harry’s health and it appears the Duke of Sussex is feeling ‘poorly’ and has been ‘under the weather’ as of late. The news has been brought forward by a report by The Daily Mail and according to their findings, the heir revealed this while walking at Lower Blakemere Farm, on…

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Magical Woodland at Blakemere Village in Cheshire | Review

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" Back into the trees.The light was growing, shrouded by storm clouds, but ahead I could see the wide swathe of land cleared of trees that surrounded the slopes of Eads Byrig and it was there, among the stumps, that most of Ragnall’s men were camped, and it was there we killed them. We burst from the woods with bloodied swords and we rode among the panicked men and we cut them down. Women screamed, children cried. My son led men from my right, slicing into fugitives fleeing from our swords. “

Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

Pale Heights sits on the Mid-Cheshire Ridge, a landscape that has been here for 225 million years; while not the highest point I’ve ever been, it is the highest ground for miles around in what is otherwise flat country and thus has been fought over as long as humanity, which is considerably younger than these hills.

Eddisbury hillfort was built in 200-100 BC by the Celtic tribes who lived here before being conquered by the Romans who ruled Britannia from 43 onwards, though by this stage what is now Cheshire was mostly peaceful.

Until 410, when, the Romans having abandoned Britannia as their own city was conquered by the Vandals, the Anglo-Saxons came to Britannia; of the kingdoms they founded, which bitterly fought one another and the Celtic Britons who had lived here since before the Romans, Mercia was the biggest in this area and sought to be the biggest in all Britain.

Chester, the biggest city in this area (it still is, and I rode out from the caravan site at Delamere early mass in the cathedral on Easter Sunday), saw a big gain for the Anglo-Saxons and a setback for the Britains in 613-6, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria (which was at war with Mercia and with the British kingdoms of Powys and Gwynnedd at the time), won the Battle of Chester.

From this time, the Britons were pushed back to what is now Wales and Cornwall, where they still live, but have been driven out of most of Cheshire and the rest of what is now England.

Although the English and Welsh continued to squabble here, and in most other places, a bigger threat came when the Vikings invaded Britain in 793 and began a series of campaigns against all the British kingdoms. 

Resistance was marshelled by Alfred the Great of Wessex (which is to the south of Mercia; Mercia itself was battered by the invaders) and Alfred’s daughter, Aethefllaed, built a fortress here in 914 as she pushed back the invaders and undo the gains they had been making for over a hundred years in Mercia.  (It is a sign of how ruthlessthe Vikings were that they managed to get the English and Welsh to agree on something and unite against them!)

After the Battle of Brunanburh in 937, Athelfled’s nephew, Athelred, defeated the Vikings and became the first king of what can meaningfully be called a united realm of England; here, some Danes still lived (if they became Christians), but the Viking ways were abandoned and any more attacks beaten off and Cheshire came to a time of peace. 

In 1066, England was conquered by William the Bastard of Normandy and these lands were given to the Earls of Chester who hunted in what became called Delamere Forest; in 1312 the Earldom of Chester was merged with the Princedom of Wales, so that the heir to the throne is still called the Earl of Chester.

The woodland declined after the farming of Vale Royal Abbey (founded 1281) and the secular landlords who took over when it was dissolved in 1539. There was also more industry and the salt trade, especially, called for more and more wood which led to trees here being cut down.

In 1812, the medieval forest law was abolished and these areas split between the crown and the local gentry and nobles; soon afterwards, Blakemere Moss (6) was drained, for tree-planting enterprises which failed, and the old wood seemed lost. 

The railway came to Delamere in 1870, and though the Whitegates Way (2) on which I cycled here, ceased to be a working railway in 1966 (it had also opened in1870), trains are very much still coming to and from Delamere as we shall see.

The Forestry Commission, which had been set up in 1919 to address the lack of timber that had become known in World War 1, took over Delamere in 1924 and still own most of it.

I first came here in May 2016 (4,8, the rest being April 2023) when walking the Sandstone Trail and it has somehow taken me this long to come back and admire the view.

 From here you can see (6) Blakemere; the story that started so badly in the 19th century had a happy ending when it was rewatered in 1998 and 2010 and restored to its former glory, as you can see. The whole area is set in the fast-growing Mersey Forest which we will soon be seeing much more of.

You can see also the industries of (7,8) Ellesmere Port (please see here for my work in that striking place) and (10) Fiddler’s Ferry power station, built in 1973 and decommissioned in 2022; it is odd, and sad, to think it will be knocked down by the time I come back, which will certainly not take me six or more years, and preferably won’t involve being ‘sliced’ by Anglo-Saxons or Vikings.

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The Prince of Wales visits Lower Blakemere Farm, a Duchy Focus Farm, to learn more about how the multigenerational farm has refined regenerative farming practices and farm diversification as part of its journey to net zero, in Hereford, England -January 28th 2025.

📷 (1 & 3) : Andrew Parsons/Kensington Palace.

[mrknitter]

Hey Up!

As we say up North.  I cannot believe it has been this long since I last blogged, so by this entry, you can rest assured I am not dead.  However, I cannot testify to whether I have been abducted by aliens in the last month,  which would account for the loss of time and absence of my wittering on about this, that and the other.

So, where have I been?  Not far if I am honest.  M went to see his Mum…

[bonefall]

what did shadowclan do to the spruces 👀

They built a BIG dam and FLOODED their territory. They started off with the north of the lake being mostly sitka plantation, and now it is not.

I am actually modelling a specific situation for this, by the way. If you're a Certified Goo Fan, you should check out what's happening in Delamere Forest with the re-flooding of Blakemere Moss. It's an extremely exciting development, we're WATCHING a rare biome form right in front of our eyes as a quaking bog develops.

So I'm adapting that idea. Blocking up drainage points, redirecting lakewater, and building a dam. I haven't sat down to "map" the construction yet, but Blackstar becomes a patron for this extremely ambitious project which is a massive success.

In BB!Po3 there will be an episode where the ThunderClan Apprentices come to help this project, for Firestar and Blackstar's alliance. The main plot of the episode is Jaypaw and Longtail's bond, ending with a mudbrawl against Owlpaw of ShadowClan... but also, it is, admittedly, also an excuse to write about wetlands lmao

I Like Goo

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The Prince of Wales visits Lower Blakemere Farm in Herefordshire to learn about how a multigenerational farm has diversified as part of its journey to net zero (Photo Courtesy : Alamy) | 28 JANUARY 2025

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27th December 2020 - Daily walk for exercise up to Old Pale Hill - Day 276 since lockdown began in the UK

27th December 2020 – Daily walk for exercise up to Old Pale Hill – Day 276 since lockdown began in the UK

On Boxing Day we enjoyed a walk along the canal between Christleton and Waverton. We are now trying to get out for some exercise every day until Oona’s finger is well enough for cycling and we are waiting for the bike trainer to be up and running. Despite Storm Bella winds causing so eerie noises last night it was a blue sky morning here in Cheshire so off we went for a walk. We have been up the…

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Prince William sends strong message to critics with latest move after allegations

Prince William also explored a farm on Duchy of Cornwall land for his latest royal engagement months after allegations Prince William sends strong message to critics with latest move after allegations Prince William has apparently sent a strong message to his critics with latest visit to Lower Blakemere Farm in Hereford. The future king explored a farm on Duchy of Cornwall land for his latest…

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