Wayne Bell at door of Merrell House.
Photography by Michael Patrick
The biggest problem with living in a historic house is time not just coping with the natural aging process of an elderly building but learning to live with architectural patterns that were made to fit the lifestyle of a different era.
Restoration architect Wayne Bell has had to deal with both problems in the ten years he has spent renovating his handsome 107-year-old Central Texas farmhouse. Located between Round Rock and Taylor, half an hour northeast of Austin, the historic Merrell House is a rough-hewn limestone building of pleasingly simple lines. Except where the Taylor highway marks the edge of the front yard, the setting is pastoral, much the way it might have been when the builder of the house, Captain Nelson Merrell, lived there.
New treatments tested to help reduce cabbage losses
25 January 2021 |
The annual value of cabbages lost in storage in the UK due to disease can be around £4.5m
New treatments are being tested to help reduce the number of cabbages lost in storage from diseases caused by extreme wet weather.
The trials were set up by AHDB in response to concerns raised by the Brassica Growers Association.
Up to 50 percent of the harvested crop can be lost in storage, which costs the industry £4.5 million annually.
The aim of the trials is to find alternative storage treatments to prevent disease, with results shared in summer 2021.