Another of the ways Lower Blakemere evangelises is through Heather’s Wiggly Wiggler composting kits

30 April 2026, The Tablet

To a much-admired regenerative pioneer farm here in the English ­borderlands of Wales, to give a Conclave talk to the local Rotary Club.

I realised I could no longer keep apart my parallel lives, I told them, after I came back from Rome last year and Andrew, a local farmer, came to deliver the barley straw for our donkey trio Faith, Hope and Charity. “Saw you on TV, then,” he said, peering down at me from the heights of his Manitou Telehandler. “You were all right, to be fair.”

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