Tessa Bunney

V O L C A N O N I G H T

Alnmouth, September 2025

Back in the 1930s and 1940s more than 300 tons of damsons were sent down to the jam factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The income from the damsons was often used to pay the annual rent of a farm. Now the growers just pick to sell on the roadside or for private customers.

T H E D A M S O N R O U T E
Aug / Sept 2025

One of my very favourite road trips is along the Lyth Valley following the damson signs to the farms in the low fells. And this year the harvest has been huge with so many stalls along the route.

#cumbria

Stiffkey saltmarsh
5.24am

#norfolk

S E A L A V E N D E R

Stiffkey, Norfolk

One more #SheepOfTheDay from Greenholme: congratulations to Joshua Capstick, who won first prize in the Lego model class in the handicrafts tent with his splendid Rough Fell tup

T H E B A Y

Last light.

#morecambebay

T A N H I L L S H O W

Another wild and windy day for the annual Tan Hill Swaledale Sheep Show up in Arkengarthdale/Swaledale this week.

#yorkshiredales

K E S W I C K M A Y F A I R

The judges table for tea, a Herdwick tup, Anthony Hartley’s trophies including The Edmondson Cup for the best shearling.

This was first presented in 1928 and is the most coveted cup in Herdwick showing. It was also once won by Beatrix Potter.

Love a proper paper tide table 😊

This bank holiday weekend is the very last chance to see FARM / MILL / BAKE at Ryedale Folk Museum.

Free entry
10 – 5

A special thank you goes to Nelly Trevelyan, Ryedale Folk Museum and all the farmers, millers and bakers who worked with me to share the story of bread in our region.

#bread

Thank you for visiting x

Why a man walked 53 miles dressed as a curlew over Easter Matt Trevelyan, formerly a puppet maker, made his lightweight costume out of polystyrene and bamboo

Such a great story - inspiring, beautiful and important.

#nidderdale

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World Curlew Day is a grass-roots initiative which champions curlews worldwide. Created by Mary Colwell in 2017, the day shines a light on the dangers curlews face due to habitat loss, land-use changes and climate pressures.

WORLD CURLEW DAY
 
Over the Easter weekend, Matt Trevelyan,  a FiPL officer for Nidderdale National Landscape, walked the 53-mile Nidderdale Way to raise awareness of one of our most iconic and threatened birds: the Eurasian Curlew – dressed as Cathy the curlew.

#nidderdale

🐰 H A P P Y E A S T E R 🐰

Cruffin and hot cross buns - from Haxby Bakehouse and Stark Farm Bakery.

#yorkshire

O N T H E R O A D

Road tripping in and around Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park and the reindeer herding areas

#finland

The snow is now compacted and frozen and can hold your weight so I am also free to wander away from the cleared path for the first time. This is not normal for April.

U P T H E F E L L

-6 and no wind. Completely silent other than my feet crunching through the snow. It’s so different this time, there’s a new footpath going further up the fell than before.

#finland

Currently on show at Ryedale Folk Museum www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/whats-on-2/

Thank you to @realbreadcampaign.bsky.social for sharing images from FARM / MILL / BAKE in the latest issue of their supporters’ magazine 'True Loaf'.

You can get your copy by joining the Campaign via their website: sustainweb.org/realbread/

Image: Haxby Bakehouse, York

En route….

#lincolnshirewolds

Marking her new exhibition 'Farm / Mill / Bake', Ryedale Folk Museum speak to documentary photographer @tessabunney.bsky.social about capturing organic bread production from field to table: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/farm...

🤩NOW OPEN🤩
until 5th May (except Friday’s)!

Thank you Rob!

Coming soon…. 

F A R M / M I L L / B A K E  

I’m delighted to share the news that my new work Farm / Mill / Bake will soon be exhibited at Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole in the beautiful North York Moors.
 
The opening is on the 20th March 2.00pm to 4.30pm. ALL WELCOME!

Until 5 May.

Sadly not 😢 I’m in Scotland! Hopefully catch up with you at one of the April Festivals?

Excited to be showing prints and photobooks at Proud Galleries in London as part of ‘Collective Visions’, an exhibition of work from members of The Photobook Club Collective.

6th March to 1st April.

Images from the series’ FarmerFlorist, 2018 and The Flower Fields, 2020.

Socorro Lopéz hand spinning pre-hispanic native cotton in brown ‘coyuchi’ using a ‘malacate’ drop spindle.

#oaxaca #mexico

T I X I N D A

The story of ‘caracol purpura’ - purple snail dye.

“Of course, this is not work you can live by. It is a culture that was passed down to us by our ancestors, and one which we are working on preserving today.” Habacuc Avendaño

www.tessabunney.co.uk/mexico/oaxac...

#oaxaca #mexico