Fancy February

Fancy February

February has seen some huge developments at the farm! Heritage and Sons construction came to the farm to install several new water troughs in the fields and to provide water to our vegetable beds so that during the summer months we don't have to find miles and miles of hose pipes! The project workers loved watching the digger do all of the hard work and as the weather was so dry you would hardly know any work has been done at all! Keeping bio diversity and productivity in mind, the woodland has now reached semi maturity and the canopy has…
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Quick update on farm life

The farm has is looking fantastic with all this beautiful weather we have been having. The horticulture gardens are looking amazing and are attracting lots of wildlife. Our poly tunnels also seem to home to some weird and wonderful wildlife... check out this whopper of a caterpillar! A few months ago a group of employees from Sytner BMW came to help us with some jobs around the farm. A group of them are very bravely tackling the great north run and have nominated us as their chosen charity! If you would like to donate please follow the link here -…
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Wet, windy and its almost winter….

Sorry for the quiet times on the blog! The farms internet has been very temperamental in all the wet/ windy weather so its been difficult to get online! The upside to all the wet weather is that we have seen some great rainbows over the farm in the last two weeks! As always the farm continues to be busy in all areas. The gardening team are starting to begin their winter contracts as the grass has almost stopped growing.  Winter work includes small landscaping jobs, hedge cutting and leaf collecting. It also includes lots of log splitting so that we…
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