What we're actually building, honestly, right now.
These are the five things taking shape on the land in the first two years. Some are in the ground. Some are in the barn. Some are still mostly a plan. We add to this list only as things become real.
Rare & heritage herbs
A small collection of medicinal and culinary herbs, focused on varieties that have quietly slipped out of common cultivation. Chosen for the Somerset climate and a mineral-rich soil.
A characterful poultry flock
A modest, deliberately mixed flock of heritage-breed birds. Kept for eggs, for their work under the fruit trees, and because a good flock is simply a pleasure to have around.
Dairy goats
A small British Toggenburg pair to begin with. Milked twice a day, quietly, and used to reshape the rhythm of the mornings more than anything else.
Dried flowers & herbs
Bundles hung and turned through the autumn and winter: lavender, yarrow, tansy, statice, and whatever else the summer has been generous with.
Early apothecary goods
Small-batch tinctures, macerations, and infused oils, made from what the land itself has produced. This is the very beginning: a first, tentative harvest of ideas.
And, in time, larger things: gathering spaces, a cared-for landscape people might travel to see. But only when they exist. Not before.