This #treeweek we'll be planting willow, alder, and crab apples in existing hedgerows and in the middle of some fields. These will grow to provide shelter from bad weather and sun and an extra food source for both our sheep and the wildlife that lives here with us.

As well as benefitting the environment through carbon sequestration and shelter and food for wildlife, they're also great at providing shelter and food for the sheep!

Tree week celebrates all things trees, and marks the start of the tree planting season here in the UK. We're lucky to have lots of trees on our small farm - some (very!) old and others we have planted in the last few years. Some form parts of hedgerows and field margins, and others small woodland.

It's tree week here in the UK this week, and I've been thinking about how trees fit here on the farm with us. I'll be spending my day outside planting some willow, alder, and crab apple in the fields on the farm.

A lovely Welsh Mountain ewe I met near the summit of Tarrenhendre is British Wools sheep of the week over on instagram - so I thought she'd earnt a spot here too. #sheep #defaid