| It's a harsh, inhospitable area where the people are fighting to survive, keeping cattle, camels and goats on small pockets of arable land. |
| Rare arable flowers such as shepherd's needle, the cornflower and marigolds thrive in the fallow land, encouraging insects as food for birds. |
| Other weed species found include bracken, which is now associated with acidic grassland rather than arable fields. |
| Rising temperatures will make arable land available that's currently too cold for cropping. |
| Areas in fields which were more like small lakes than arable land have dried out and are now drilled with corn. |
| The isolated cottage is surrounded by rolling hills with arable farms, and forest. |
