Throughout 2026 photographer Simon Bray will be documenting the changing seasons at Stem and Green Flower Farm in Winchester. Capturing ebb and flow as winter passes into spring, then to summer, autumn and back to winter. The delicate new life of spring, the heady glut of summer and the slow decay of late autumn. The pastels of spring moving to the hot brights of summer, through to the umbers of October.
Chapter one, January: Cold, harsh and stark. The only life is within the shelter of the polytunnels, little seedlings of potential waiting for their moment later this year. The field is bare, be it for the skeletons of faded plants, left for the birds and gives the soil structure. It’s a rare moment of calm, all asleep before the awakening of spring.
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