Herefordshire is an agricultural county. Where it is known elsewhere in the world it is usually for its breed of cattle. On a recent walk we looked north from the slopes of Penyard Park woods at the chequerboard of fields bordered with hedges that stretched away to the horizon and considered what we could see. Rows of blackcurrant bushes, tree nurseries or orchards, pasture with cattle and sheep, wheat, barley, bright yellow oilseed rape and polytunnels, probably over strawberries, were all visible. And, here and there, prepared but unplanted fields of characteristic red soil added contrast to the landscape.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
