News from High House Studios

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, [...]

Nina and Ellie have been with us for 6 weeks, pretty much the whole of spring. We have done many things, including the installation of a 500m electric fence to [...]

The ground at High House is mixed, but mostly it's sand over chalk and flint - evidence of what was once a shallow sea. The chalk itself is a form [...]

We had four pairs of Egyptian geese nesting in the park this spring, more than we’ve ever had. As the name suggests, they originate from Africa but were brought here [...]

Some of the 4500 narcissi ('Thalia', 'Pheasant's Eye' and 'Actaea') planted in the orchard during October/November 2022, now coming in to flower, in succession. If they are happy they should [...]

We hope that this blog gives a sense of what it will be like staying at High House. We’d like to capture the changing seasons and to show how [...]