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I’ve been busy putting a plan together. I’m always putting a plan together. I can be having a perfectly nice time and I’ll be planning other perfectly nice times without fully immersing myself in the current perfectly nice time. It’s not very sensible, though as things go, it is relatively harmless.

It’s nine fairly planless years since arriving here, so maybe a plan is due. And, as I say in the new book, it feels like I’ve just started. The first three years were spent finding my feet, making obvious mistakes, learning and deciding what to grow, three more were consumed in making larger mistakes and undoing some of what I’d done in years 1-3, and the last three have gone pretty well.

For all its limitations and cock ups, Otter Farm an interesting place.  There are plenty of things grown on these 17 acres that aren’t to be found anywhere else in the country – pecans and sansho peppers among them. They are also found in interesting combin Kitchen garden templeton ma!