Getting ready for sales day 7th December 11-3, everyone is welcome!

November is a time for finishing off projects and getting ready for colder weather approaching us in winter. Some of the vegetable beds have been covered and insulated, this is to stop any new seeds from settling into the soil and to keep the soil a little warmer so that any seeds already in the bed wont be killed in colder temperatures. The horticulture team are in full swing with making wreaths ready for our sales day on 7th December 11-3. Be sure to pop down and check the farm out, there will be lots on offer including Christmas trees,…
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Cadent came and conquered

Cadent came and conquered

Over the past couple of weeks we have been joined by some fantastic employees from Cadent who have totally transformed the far end of the farm! Cadent who look after gas pipes all of the UK bought all their skills, man power and machines to achieve something truly amazing! Some of you may have seen the big lump of soil we had positioned at the end of the farm with the long-term plan of turning into a sensory garden feeling very much in the future. The Cadent team came in and set to work by beginning to strim the whole…
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Lloyds lend a hand

Lloyds lend a hand

Last week we had a huge team (over 100 people!) come from Lloyds to come and tackle some projects at the farm with us. By the end of the day it looked like a fairy godmother had come and waved a magic wand around the farm! The groups split into several teams tackling different projects around the farm. Three of the teams headed to the winter field where the horses and sheep will be throughout the winter. The fields fence line was tidied up as the team pruned back a lot of branches allowing us to check the fencing a…
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A big surprise from Eversfield School

A big surprise from Eversfield School

This blog is to say a huge thank you to all the students, teachers and parents at Eversfield School who chose the farm as their charity for the year. The students have been taking part in a huge amount of activities to raise money as well as regularly coming down and visiting us at the farm to see what we get up to on a day-to-day basis. They also designed and created our fantastic new sign at the front gates!   A couple of weeks ago Eversfield invited Kate our horticulture instructor to their open afternoon, where they presented us…
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Beast from the east wont stop Xoserve

Beast from the east wont stop Xoserve

Last Tuesday and Wednesday we were joined at the farm by a team from Xoserve who came to put up our new tipi fencing, help us with log splitting and start the new compost bays. This was the beginning of the 'beast from the east' and what started as a flutter of snow quickly turned into making this a very challenging couple of days for the teams! At the end of day one we had a beautiful new enclosed Tipi area which looked absolutely fantastic! The team did a fantastic job bashing in over 20 posts and then attaching the…
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Jumping Into January

Jumping Into January

We quickly got stuck back into all our projects after Christmas at the farm which has kept us busy and warm in this crazy wintry weather we've been having. The two baby rabbits have spent the last few weeks getting to know our older rabbit 'chicken' (a rather confusing name which was picked out of a hat!). They have been meeting each other in the run for the last couple of weeks and they have now finally joined Chicken in the big rabbit hutch at night! The new years means that we start looking towards lambing time! When checking the…
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Christmas Sales Day! 1/12/17 11-3pm (Blog)

Christmas Sales Day! 1/12/17 11-3pm (Blog)

Christmas sales day is this week and we have lots of lovely treats for you to purchase ready for Christmas! We have heaps of homemade jams, chutneys and apple juice for you to browse as well as some woodwork crafts and calendars. We have also partnered up with We Tree Kings again and will be selling trees directly from the farm and from Morrisons Solihull. If you are going to buy a real tree this year be sure to check us out as they are such a good quality! The animals will also be out and about to meet everyone…
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Juicing and Jamming

Juicing and Jamming

Farm life is busy as ever so here's a snapshot of whats been going on! There is always plenty of fencing to be re-done at the farm and we have now started at the bottom of the farm field. We are trying to replace it in stages so that all the fields can still be used with no escapees! Its always so satisfying to stand back and check out all your hard work with a nice fence! The tortoises are a great indicator of the changing seasons as they start to slow down and prepare to hibernate. Terrance and Tequila…
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Lex Autolease give us a makeover

On Tuesday a team of 39 came to lend us a hand from Lex Autolease who are part of Lloyds Banking group. We set the team several hard challenges with the hope that they would make a start on them for us. Well they completely smashed our goals and finished all the projects we set them! The arena fencing has looked more and more tipsy over the past 6 months and so a team set to work getting the old posts out and setting some new ones in place. Many of the old posts were heavily concreted into place and…
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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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