Organic Birds

It's been a glorious sunny day. The sky has been almost cloudless throughout. This afternoon Liz and I went down on the farm - that's East Coast Organics Farm, near Pencaitland.


We get a fruit & vegetable box from them each week and today was their annual Open Day - it couldn't have been better weather. When we got there about 3 o'clock, the temporary car park was full and cars were queued up on to the road.


Inside we saw the colourful vegetables that we have been eating all summer; green lettuce, purple kale, ruby chard, speckled courgettes, apples, beans, tomatoes, beetroot, etc.


They keep hens as well, free range and organic of course, to browse through the leftovers, and to turn over and fertilise the soil. So today was a bird day too, although they weren't as colourful as the pheasants last week.


And in the sky there were mechanical birds too! Tricky to capture on camera because they were so high up, soaring over the fields and countryside. But one of my shots came out. I guess they are free range too, although not so eco-friendly!