Wednesday 25th September 2019
As part of our 25th birthday celebrations, we’ve been talking cow poo!
We’ve worked with a group of local artists to create a cow made entirely of organic cow muck from our own farm. The finished article on the hill of the valley looks fantastic!
This giant cow took a team of artists wielding 3,000 buckets of poo, a week to complete and stands at 70 metres wide and 50 metres high! As much as we love her, she won’t be around for long, naturally degrading over a fortnight or so, leaving no trace behind.
This temporary art installation is a perfect way to mark 25 years of organic and will also help get the message across that organic farming works with and not against the natural environment.
We took the idea to the Heritage Courtyard Gallery here in Somerset and got Heather Jane Wallace involved in the project, she says ‘I’m a Somerset girl and my family are farmers so I really understand the message. Organic farming is so important for wildlife, healthy soil and tackling climate change.
It was exhausting carrying the buckets of poo up the steep hill. We used great big household brooms to paint it into the grass. It was a real challenge getting the scale right – from a distance we quickly realised that you can only make out great big shapes and not details like eye lashes.
Whoever said contemporary art is just a pile of poo??”
Mesy job But well worth it !!!
Love the cow-dung cow. Should fertilise the field rather well too! Very organic and tuned in to nature!
It looks fab!!!!!!
EXTRAORDINARY!
Wonderful! Surely it must be made permanent?
Anni.
What a wonderful visual picture
Absolutely fantastic Heather Jane. Great perspective
I love it! Please photograph it and allow us to exchange yeokens for a copy.
Organically lovely poofect!
Great picture of a cow on the hillside
It looks fantastic. Well done to the artists.
A poo cow, absolutely great wonderful idea.
That’s brilliant.
Fantastic work! Congratulations on 25yrs organic farming and good luck for the future and beyond!!
Fantastic!
Pootiful.
Moo mastic
What a wonderful creation and so environmentally friendly – well in keeping with the ethos of your farm.
Well done! Especially to the guys who did the carrying of the buckets! Trust you all had a good shower when you finished 🤣😂🤣
My sisters and I are udderly confused, there’s a broon coo up the brae an she’s nae eating oor grass
Expect the cow to appear in extra lush grass growth soon!
Wow, well impressed it looks amazing. Fantastic idea.
Pootastic.
I bet that the organic waste will leave it’s mark by making the grass greener in the Spring.
I love this! It’s just a shame it won’t be around for longer.
EXCELLENT job well done . I’ve never seen white cow poo before!
Moovelous dahlings x!
What a fantastic thing to do. Such an achievement, original and clever. Living in Scotland I can’t come down to see it but it doesn’t matter I can see it in your picture and to scale too!
You’ve really dung it this time!
There couldn’t possibly be any better way to celebrate your organic ethos or your 25th anniversary….BRILLIANT! My only regret is I don’t live near enough to come and see the artwork for myself.Congratulations and thanks for putting the photo on your website.
A giant cow made of poo?
Pull the udder one!
Happy 25th anniversary.
Looks really good what a feat 3,ooo buckets of cow poo can attain.It’s a shame I cant get to see it in the real. I hope it’s had a lot
of publicity to advertise
local organic farming .
Carry on your good work.
Patricia.
What a great idea, looks wonderful and sends a really positive message about farming too. Well done and keep up the good work!
What a Fantastic idea, you done an amazing job.
Happy 25th birthday!
This is great. Looks fantastic and was worth the effort to send out a clear message about organic farming.
FANTASTIC WORK PEOPLE?!X
What a fantastic project. It looks great!
Beautiful. It’s a pity it can’t be made permanent.
It’s a fantastic idea. Shame you can’t make it a permanent feature.
Maybe the poo cow will last in that the grass will grow lusher where the poo is and, in time, you will have a green cow.
Amazing what a feat great idea very well done to all concerned.
Totally amazing!!
It’s absolutely superb, congratulations to all who planned and made the “sculpture”
congratulations for showing the natural in the easiest way to understand why values have been lost🌻