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All Wrapped Up
Black plastic and bailer twine, farm house.
(24 x 16x 6.5m)
Is farming as we have always known it, all wrapped up? Wrapped in black plastic
and bailer twine like a haystack, a whole farmhouse in the Eden Valley will represent
the plight of the hill farm. |
location:
Croft Farm, Scarrowmanwick, Croglin, Carlisle, CA4 9SE
dates:
throughout
OS grid ref:
NY 580 471
getting out there:
On the B6413 from Brampton, about 1/4 mile south of Croglin village. Signposted. |
Is farming as we have always known it, all wrapped up?
Entirely wrapped in black plastic, a whole farmhouse in the Eden Valley will represent the plight of the hill farm.As an 87 year old farmer’s wife is finally moved out of the farmhouse, for the family, as with most of the community, comes the realisation that this is the end of an era. But do all of us, now urban creatures, realize the full implications? Do we realise that the countryside we all so love to visit, can only survive if farming does? - and this does not mean 'argi- business' and the eroding wasteland that results...
Like a large silage mound or haystack, the house will be wrapped in black plastic sheeting and tied up with bailer twine. Monumental and strangely sinister, Croft Farm will present a dark and ominous shape on the landscape....
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