Our Countryside Journal - a collaboration between three local ladies with an appreciation of natural materials providing native colouration, together with textured fabrics and real paper pages that allows us to capture little snippets of visionary information.

Fernhill Farm grows raw wool fibres in the most natural and regenerative way on our land that supports ancient symbiotic relationships with the sun, soil, sheep and survival. Plants needs animals just as animals need plants, plants needs sun, and soil should barely see the sun, and here begins our Regenerative Journey.

Growing Calendula as a a companion for our vegetables, supplying herbalists for their plant remedies and using as a natural dye plant, our dear friend and beautiful artist Natasha Clutterbuck joins our journey.

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Natasha creates art from the kitchen garden with vibrant, earthy vegetable drawings using natural raw materials and believes it is important to stay connected to reality and to stay in touch with the earth. These natural materials include willow charcoal produced on the Somerset levels, red iron ore and ochres found in the Mendip hills, and mud and oak bark found near our homes.

Using charcoal and mud in her work and applying it with fingers is the common element that connects us all to our own existence and compliments the Fernhill Farm ethos of letting the earth live.

A conversation linking wool from our flock of colourful sheep to create a textured backdrop for these drawings started experimentation with drawings onto our pure Shetland wool felt, perhaps embroidery and finally the awareness of accepting other natural fibres grown organically.

This process paved the way forward for the Calendula flower charcoal drawing to be digitally printed onto organic calico using vegetable dye inks, allowing a local business to share their organic and plant dye certifications with our finished product in a truly Fibreshed way.

We finally have a single farm origin, fully traceable wool felt together with a transparent digital print and now we can invite the one and only Original Fanny Adams to make this idea become a reality.

Jane is a local seamstress that uses her hands in a totally different way to us and her lifetime of cutting and sewing, designing and fabricating clothing, accessories, gifts and homewares - we are delighted to offer you this opportunity to Celebrate the Seasons in our Countryside Journal

A5 journal with 92 pages sub-divided with additional illustrations from the veg patch depicting the seasons from Spring and Summer, to Autumn and Winter.

100% natural fibre creation, would be wholly biodegradable with a reusable wool felt and organic calico print cover, sewn together using a naturally dyed burnt orange cotton tread by Liberty, wooden Fernhill Fibre buttons with a pure Shetland Chunky Yarn wrap strap. Hand-made using an all-natural trim, page marker and pocket pouch for important things.

The paper journal is fabricated in Bristol from a company supplying recycled paper stock that use vegetable based printing inks.

Replacement journals can be ordered here, to allow the felt cover to continue its life as a lightweight, tactile treasure to hold handy in your bag for life.

The faint lines on the pages are purposely designed by Natasha to enable you to “break out of the box” for the perfect combination of written text, scribbles, doodles and diagrams that we believe all notebooks should store as your memoirs.

For us here at Fernhill Farm these pages will be used to record our Regenerative Journey and we hope others find these pages a useful way of capturing their own personal road to recovery, exercise and diet plans, gardening guide to next year plantings, and many other moments worth capturing year on year.

If you wish to discover more about these journals please reach out to wool@fernhill-farm.co.uk