Country diary: Rescued hens are among the spring arrivals on the farm | Andrea Meanwell

Tebay, Cumbria: These ex-commercial hens have a home for the rest of their lives here, where they can be ridiculously free range and entertain us with their anticsThe first crocuses have come out this week, the winter jobs have been finished and we are getting ready for lambing. This winter we planted more than 1km of new hedgerows and an orchard of 16 fruit trees: local varieties of apple and damson sourced from a nearby orchard group. We also repaired drystone walls and fen