Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

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Episode 2.83 - Tinder Fields and Hobby Missiles

Episode 2.83 - Tinder Fields and Hobby Missiles1. Aug.52 Min.

Send us Fan Mail On a fiercely hot, windy late-July morning at High Ash Farm, Chris Skinner and Matthew Gudgin stand on one of the highest points of the farm as temperatures push into the 30s and a strong breeze turns the landscape into a tinderbox. Chris recounts a heart-stopping encounter with a group of people barbecuing in Successional Woodland — the smell of cooking meat leading him to intervene and then race to mow nearly 80–100 acres of pollen-and-nectar fields that had just finished f...