Dodgson Wood

02/04/2026

29/03/2026

The official start of lambing, despite the false start in January 😂

25/01/2026

Really pleased to have an essay included in this anthology of diverse writers, farmers, rural activists and ecologists. A great line up so it’s an honour for me to have been asked to contribute. The collection looks at the current realities and possibilities for our countryside.
Comes out in April but you can pre-order through ❤️

03/11/2025

Our Castle Blue Tweed scarf is back in stock on our Dodgson Wood website if you’re looking for something special to keep you warm this month.

The Castle Blue tweed is from our flock of Castlemilk Moorits, Bluefaced Leicesters and crossbred Castleblue sheep.

hand weaves the tweed for us up in Scotland and then the scarf is made by Sally Cowell here in the Lake District. Thank you both for your beautiful work on these.

Just 9 available in this batch. There’s a link in our bio for you to have a look. Hope you love them as much as we do.

21/08/2025

BOOK YOUR TICKETS (link in bio)
Come join us and the Wayfaring Cinema Collective for a unique, outdoor cinema experience on the lakeside of Coniston at
Dodgson Wood, Ulverston, 6-10pm, Wednesday 24 September 2025.
We will be sharing three artist films with food, fire and conviviality:
Wayfaring Stranger (2025, UK, 69m, Andrea Luka Zimmerman), Gypsyland (20m, Delaine Le Bas) and Realities Checked (2024, 17m, Damian Le Bas) on a mobile outdoor cinema by the shore, with a bar & facilitated
conversations around the fire.
About visiting Dodgson Wood
The event will take place in a field on the South-east side of Lake Coniston, just north of High Nibthwaite. There is no direct public transport, but the nearest train station is Ulverston from where you can take a taxi. For those driving/cycling, use What3words: ///tint.leathers.weekends. There is a
campsite close by, and we are offering free camping for night of this event.
More info from

05/08/2025

Brilliant day at the McRobert Farming and Rural Skills Centre at . We were presenting alongside , to stimulate discussions around what and how to improve conditions for local farmers. This was an initial phase of a bigger project. So often we give talks but there’s no follow through. But this felt different and enlivening. 👏🏽❤️

14/07/2025

From the book launch at of
Very pleased to have an essay included in Vol. 1 about some of the ways we’ve added value to what our farm produces. The books are a great collection of current thinking on the ground about land, food and farming (vol.1) and housing, planning and construction (vol.2). Published by ❤️
Available through Little Toller, Common Treasures and our website X

08/07/2025

From eggs that sat in the incubator for 28 days to these little dinosaurs now two months old. This is them roosting for the night. They are very good and always take themselves to bed, unlike the adult turkeys that I have to persuade into their hut. If you’ve never kept turkeys, I would recommend them. They bring me a strange amount of joy!

01/05/2025

I will be speaking at Transition Live 2025 🧑‍🌾. I will be talking g about building businesses that support our small family farm. Creativity and collaboration have been key to opening up new economic and cultural opportunities, diversifying but staying rooted in our farming values. We will also have a stall at the event where you can talk about farming with or wool with and we will have some and .wool.library products for you to buy. Hope you can come! Link for tickets in bio. ❤️

30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who make new bodies from their own body. It’s truly magical. But it took me being in the lambing shed to realise just how incredible it is. You see every relationship in the lambing shed, mostly loving, but some indifferent or some sheep seem deliberately neglectful. Not all mothers are the same and seeing this in the lambing shed as I mother lambs having never been a mother myself helped me come to terms with my difficult relationship with my own mum. I’m writing about this and how I ended up on a farm in the Lake District in a memoir that should be published spring next year (if I finish it in time!). It’s called A Night In The Lambing Shed.

14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day from us all at the farm! John and I are having a romantic day, driving a trailer load of wool to British Wool to be graded for ❤️
Who needs flowers when you could have puppies and llamas and sheep and wool ❤️❤️❤️

19/01/2025

Well that was tricky as there were so many brilliant suggestions! We’ve decided on Yan - The Cumbrian word for one. It needed to be a one syllable word that is easy to shout across the field or fell.
Thanks so much for all the suggestions. We’ll bank them and use some for inevitable pet lambs in Spring.