The Support of the Big Business for the Small

and how it matters

For the past month I’ve been making willow wreath bases. Four hundred and twenty of them to be exact. Each base takes three stems of year old willow which is cut by hand, carefully in order not to cut off the trees the tight communities of giant willow aphids (Tuberolachnus salignus) which at this time of year can be seen fattening the stems of the wi…