THROUGH MY LENS - Walking round the Mount Stewart Demesne with Toby (Part 1)

Recently the staff and volunteers of the National Trust Property of Mount Stewart walked around part of the demesne with Toby, a Ranger, part of which is not all opened to the public as yet.  We stopped at various place and he explained that over years some of the fields had grown potatoes and now the soil was nearly sterile and so this year 14 acres were seeded with wild flowers and in at the end of October, a lot were still in bloom.  It will take quite a number of years to correct this situation.

We walked over many lush green fields.  

Already they have 8 miles of paths open to the public and they hope by Easter 2019 to have added another 4 miles.  We passed a large compost heap and he was saying that although this may not look a pretty sight, he believed that the public should know what goes on behind the scenes. 

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