Case studies Posts - Green and Carter

Farmer fights drought with Ram Pump

Farmer Peter Lee is fighting the drought down on his farm at Bochym, Cury, with the aid of a Ram. The Ram is not a farm animal but a self-driven pump first installed at the turn of the century when they were popular with farmers who had natural water courses on their land. With the […]

Extracts from “The Lost Gardens of Heligan”

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Some weeks previously, John Nelson, Orlando and Julie had explored a valley to the west of the gardens, in search of a little rectangle marked on the OS map with the word ‘Ram’ beside it. They had found a curious three-sided wall of stone in the middle of some beautiful, mature woodland. Thinking that was […]