You’ll find something new on this blog every couple of days as our four young bloggers will be sending us all the news from their farms.
To kick things off, during the course of this week, we’ll be publishing the articles they wrote in response to the question: Why do you love the countryside?
This first one is from 10-year-old Martha Corney in North Yorkshire:
The main reason why I like living in the countryside is because of all the different animals we can have and the birds and wildlife we can see.
On our farm we have cows and calves and a bull called William, he is very friendly and he loves to eat carrots, he will stand for ages to have his back scratched.
We have a flock of breeding ewes and my favourite time is lambing time and hopefully I get some pet lambs to look after.
My favourite bird is the barn owl who nests in our old granary, this year she has four babies.
The owls are looked after by the Barn Owl Trust so when they come to weigh and ring the babies I get a chance to hold them, which is good but they smell really bad!
I never get bored living in the country as there is always something to do, and we have a really big garden to run about in, we also have lots of apple trees to climb or to pick fruit of and you can’t beat fresh veg out of the garden, my favourite is the carrot.
I would not want to live anywhere else.
Comments (2)
Welcome to this blog Martha. It's good to have you blogging in support of this important campaign.
I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Julian - FWi editor
Posted by Julian Gairdner | July 5, 2007 11:15 AM
Posted on July 5, 2007 11:15
Looking forward to hearing more about the owls!
Isabel
Posted by Isabel | July 6, 2007 4:38 PM
Posted on July 6, 2007 16:38