Industrious in isolation

It is now seven weeks since Italy began its lockdown. What do you do when you are on house arrest, the world outside has gone topsy turvy, and you have 12 acres of land wanting attention? You make the most of the lack of interruptions to daily life, you get as much fresh air and time in the great outdoors as possible, and you plough on with projects, and revel in the satisfaction of taking great steps forward.

Yes, we have been industrious in our isolation.

We have: strimmed all the terraces, pruned all the olive trees, finished phased 1 of the great terrace reconstruction project, felled 6 trees, built 7 veg beds, planted seeds, planted 8 new fruit trees, built two bio reactor composters, reconditioned some 5-year-old cold frames, constructed more steps, put in irrigation, filled holes in the drive, made lots of wood chip... and (finally, after 7 weeks because today it's raining) cleaned the house.

Presenting the veg garden 2020 and new terracing phase 1:

Digging into the terraces we amassed quite a collection of "archaeological" finds. Whether any of these pieces represent anything interesting (old) or whether it's all modern tat we will likely never know!