Blog - Treflach Farm

The Dolomite of Treflach

by Andrew Steele May 10, 2022

The picture above is of a local massive bomb crater dating from WW2. The area was targeted by enemy aircraft as the local limestone quarry was es...

by Andrew Steele April 01, 2022

Also known as terrestrial isopod crustaceans, woodlice are the only land living relative of crabs, lobsters and shrimps and are in fact not clas...

by Andrew Steele February 22, 2022

A few years ago some friends from Australia were visiting and they commented on a basket of blackberries on the kitchen table as back home the hum...

by Andrew Steele January 18, 2022

View the tape here The History of Treflach won’t be found in books but uncovered occasionally in articles, diaries and oral histories that record ...

by Andrew Steele November 08, 2021

(Picture by Victoria Macken of Ian and Stefanie Steele on their wedding day in Treflach Farm orchard, 4/9/2021) I remember reading a very old...

by Andrew Steele October 10, 2021

They say the best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago, the second best time is now. We are like trees - we make a difference to the landscap...

by Andrew Steele September 08, 2021

The kites that children fly get their name from these birds. If you look into the sky of Treflach on a quiet autumn day you can see them spread w...

by Andrew Steele August 03, 2021

In Treflach there is a rare small leaved Lime that has a girth of 25 feet. I think it is 2 trees planted 6 feet apart about 300 years ago that hav...

by Andrew Steele June 15, 2021

Fern dates back in fossil form 300 million years and today are among the most primitive plants on earth as they have no flowers and seed by spores...

by Andrew Steele May 07, 2021

They used to say a few years ago that bulls would go mad as when they bellowed from their living quarters the echo would rebound several times acr...

by Andrew Steele April 03, 2021

The prairies of America were grazed by buffalo for millennia producing rooted pasture that held the soil together. By 1900, after a century of ext...

by Andrew Steele February 24, 2021

When the Celts and Pagans cleared this land of trees they did so for survival. They would always leave the biggest tree in the area as they worsh...