News from High House Studios

We had the wood mill here for a couple of days, we worked through a dozen fallen trees, turning them into usable timber.

The pond is developing, lots of swimming when the sun comes out. Full of dragonflies and damselflies.

Sarah Cleary, a current resident - who is making creatures by dissolving chalk with vinegar - needed more chalk. Fiona suggested a visit to the local chalk quarry. Like [...]

In Autumn 2023 we sowed wildflower seed in to trays to germinate: harebell, cowslip, yellow rattle, common orchid, cranesbill, and snake's head fritillary.

Here are our recent residents, Ika Schwander and Lizzy Deacon, enjoying the first wintry plunge into the new pond.  Inspired by them we are jumping into 2024 with the same [...]

As the days shorten, the weeds slow, and the colours dazzle, it’s time to take stock in the vegetable garden.

Big pond. This has been a big project, we’ve moved something like 2000 cubic meters of earth, here is the liner being installed.

The tree nursery stock is growing. Here are the oaks grown from the acorns collected from some of the oldest trees we have. We also have hazel, crab apple, [...]