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June in the garden

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

Pete Harcom looks at how to save water, keep pollinators happy and tackle weeds, without reaching for the sprinkler or scalping your lawnIf you followed the No-Mow-May last month, the weeds in the lawn and the borders will now need attention!Remove weeds as soon as you spot them, and make sure to dig out the roots. Don’t be too brutal though – daisies can look very attractive in a lawn, and they are a great plant for attracting pollinators as the flowers are full of pollen and nectar.
Nature recovery by 2030? Fat chance

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

Chaotic policy and chronic underfunding – Dorset NFU’s Tim Gelfs calls time on the empty rhetoric behind the Government’s green aimsThere are two phrases that spring to mind over the government’s ambition of 30 per cent nature recovery by 2030 – fat chance and no chance!Despite Dorset Council’s early efforts, it seems that with every new move on rural policy, the government hammers yet another nail into the coffin of nature recovery.
May diary 2025 | The Voice of the Allotment

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

Barry Cuff takes a look back at what happened on his Sturminster Newton plot last monthMay is our busiest month on the allotment, and even more so this year due to the lack of rain between 24th April and 20th May. Young plants and seedlings needed watering daily, some twice daily. Our potatoes, a thirsty crop, were given 20 to 30 litres of water per row every 3-4 days. Our strawberry plants (laden with flowers) were watered every three days as they started to produce fruit.
Finance Director for large rural estate | Fowler Fortescue

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

Location: Dorset / Wiltshire, with flexibility. Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience, circa £60k – £70kContract: Full-time, permanent. Accommodation: Potentially available if required. Our client, a Rural Estate enterprise is seeking a highly experienced and commercially astute Finance Director to lead and modernise all financial operations.
Latin America, a choral feast and party the night away at The Exchange

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

Quimantu is an iconic Anglo-Chilean band performing with charangos, zamponas, quenas, bombos, violins, violas and cellos. In a unique Artsreach community project, Quimantu has been working with Dorset choirs and the Alkyona Quartet to perform Miso de los Mineros – The Miners Mass. This powerful piece fuses British choral tradition with Latin American roots, composed by Mauricio Venegas-Astorga, who fled Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship 50 years ago and made the UK home.
Letters to the editor June 2025

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

There is a new cat in the Hitchcock household. It’s taken us a long time to get here. After we lost Pog we weren’t sure we could do it again. We live almost on a bend of a B-road that likes to pretend it’s an A-road at rush hour. On the other side: open fields. The siren call of hunting grounds. We couldn’t risk it. I imagined an elderly retiree who’d potter from sunbeam to lap.
A song for the stones of Mere

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

From weathervanes to war letters and worn stone steps, Richard Nye’s Windelstán gives Mere’s ancient church tower its own haunting voiceView of Mere with St Michael’s Tower after renovation in 2024Composing music isn’t straightforward for me. It’s more of a compulsion,’ says Richard Nye, Sturminster Newton resident and Mere’s Composer in Residence.
The ladies who brought back the Bard

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

A North Dorset countess helped rescue Shakespeare’s bawdy brilliance from censorship, and is finally getting the credit … 300 years overdueA new book on The Shakespeare Ladies Club shines a spotlight on an 18th century woman from North Dorset who influenced a nation’s love of literature. Today, Shakespeare features in school curriculums and re-ignites memories for all those who swotted for English exams.
From holy row to holy wow

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

From conflict to coffee and conversation – the Dorset church that made peace, lost its pews, gained a loo … and found its futureFive years ago, Okeford Fitzpaine hit the headlines and the international press descended on North Dorset, fascinated by stories of angry villagers up in arms over pews being removed from their local church. The dispute fractured relationships in the village and was deeply upsetting for many people.
The last cut for local meat

2 weeks ago | theblackmorevale.co.uk | Laura Hitchcock

When small abattoirs close, farmers lose options, animals travel miles and rare breeds, food miles and the ability to sell truly local meat are all threatenedWhen you throw some sausages or a steak on the barbecue, how much thought do you give to where the meat came from? Small abattoirs are critical to the UK’s food security and farming industry, yet they are in crisis.