Dowthwaite Head and Great Dodd from Gowbarrow Fell Hospitality at Glencoyne Farm, with Sam and Candida Hodgson, brings me to look afresh at Gowbarrow Fell where their conservation strategy bears fruit.
To the north, toward Blencathra, sunlight on snow. Over Place Fell, a roiling mass of cloud. Vistas from Gowbarrow Fell, a sweep of heather and tussocks where the Hodgson’s Herdwicks graze, and at my feet the flora of the fells toward the winter solstice.
High-stepping through heather I go, through grassy tussocks, between hummocks of sphagnum mosses, ericas, cross-leaved heath and crowberry. On the cranberry trail, with creeping strands of tiny leaves over sphagnum moss.
To the north, toward Blencathra, sunlight on snow. Over Place Fell, a roiling mass of cloud. Vistas from Gowbarrow Fell, a sweep of heather and tussocks where the Hodgson’s Herdwicks graze, and at my feet the flora of the fells toward the winter solstice.
High-stepping through heather I go, through grassy tussocks, between hummocks of sphagnum mosses, ericas, cross-leaved heath and crowberry. On the cranberry trail, with creeping strands of tiny leaves over sphagnum moss.
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