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Take a walk over Barwinnock Farm. As we do not use any chemical fertilisers or herbicides, there is a wealth of wild plants to find.
Look for the Soay sheep.White Galloway Cattle.

There are three drumlins that make the farm: small hills the shape of a sea monster with just its back showing. These create a landscape of a shoal of whales swimming south. Walk up the spine of one of these great monsters to enjoy the view!

Without giants, how could this landscape have been shaped?
"The straths of Scotland were made by giants thousands of years ago, before the time of man. They carved them out with ploughs of ice harnessed to the rushing white clouds, then they strode over them, with storm pouches full, scattering grains of snow on the yawning rocks, and the snow sprouted from the rocks as water, down every cliff and rock-face it leapt singing and wherever it touched the gritty soil, seethed into life in a thousand glens.
And when the giants saw that there work was finished, they stood on the land that was theirs, and raising their faces to the sun, with the wind in their green hair, they became the mountains, and the hollows where their feet had trod were called lochs and new forests of birch and pine and elder grew about their massive thighs, and the waters of their creation sang through them and beyond, down to the distant sea"
Mackay, Colin "The Song of the Forest"