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30 Apr 2015

Spring Pictures

This hot weather has really taken it out of the horses! They are now coming in during the day to deflate their chunky tummys before going back out again at night. The poo picking machine has been treated to some new bristles and is now doing its job even better than ever! It continues to save us a huge amount of time and is an amazing piece of kit! The blossom at the farm is almost in full swing and will open any day now! Hopefully we will have a great year for apples and other fruit grown on the…

31 Mar 2015

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New Arrivals

Welcome to our March blog, and what a lot of lamb pictures we have to share with you! A week earlier than expected our two of our lovely ewes decided to give birth to their lambs! The first ewe successfully had one lamb and the second ewe had three lambs! Because they had them so close together we were able to adopt one of the triplets onto the ewe who just had one, meaning that both ewes had two lambs each which was healthier for the ewes and the lambs. The adoption went really well and both came on leaps…

02 Mar 2015

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A late February blog!

In our next blog we will hopefully be showing you some pictures of our new baby lambs! But as we write this they are still a week away from arriving and their moms are keeping us busy! We have set up lamb cam so that we are able to check on them through the night without disturbing them unless required. The budgies have been enjoying the sunshine and yesterday enjoyed our leftover salad from Berrys Cafe! Over the last couple of weeks 4 employees from Landrover have joined us to give up some of their time to do some volunteering…

26 Jan 2015

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2015!

2015 Has already got off to a flying start! The gardening teams have been busy working on some raised beds for Coppice Junior School. They have certainly had to deal with their fair share of wet weather but i think you will all agree that it looks fantastic. Before After Well done to the project workers and staff who helped with this transformation, you have done an amazing job! This is the time of year where the animals get extra hungry and they require that bit of extra food to keep warm! The chickens have been enjoying some black sunflower…

14 Nov 2014

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November at the farm so far…

The dark nights have arrived and we are now entering the beginnings of winter! The farm looks spectacular at this time of the year... We would like to say a huge thank you to the employees from N Power who joined us last week and the employees from Jaguar Landrover who have given their time to the farm over the last three days. They have helped to transform the vegetable beds ready for lots of growing next year! We are always so grateful for the time you give to help us at the farm, thank you again! The wood work…

11 Sep 2014

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A huge amount of thank yous to make!

Wow we have had an amazing couple of weeks at the farm! We have several massive thank yous to make.. Firstly to Landrover who have very kindly donated us a brand new defender to join our Community Gardening Service team over in chelmsley wood. We are still completely overwhelmed by this and would like to thank everyone at Landrover who made this happen and for their ongoing support for the farm and CGS. What a cool entrance... Our next thank you goes to Solihull Lions who donated £350 to the farm to help bring the cost of the ticket prices…

08 Jul 2014

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Summer time!

Wow time is flying and it has been over two months since we last blogged! Apologies! As usual the farm is a hive of activity and it continues to go from strength to strength. We have had groups from EE and from N Power join us since we last blogged to come and lend us a helping hand all over the farm! Thanks to the groups we now have a beautifully weeded veg patch, newly stained patio furniture and decking. It takes a massive amount of effort to do all of these tasks and on behalf of everyone at the…

09 Jan 2014

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! As always we are starting the new year full steam ahead and have started a few new projects! This includes our new aviary. We have been very fortunate and Solihull Lions have kindly donated £680 for us to build the aviary and fill it full of birds! We are looking to fill the aviary with either budgies or zebra finches and canaries! The choice lies with the project workers who are yet to vote on it! To make way for the new addition we have taken down (demolished) the old shed next to the hay store…

05 Dec 2013

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BMW come to the farm!

This Tuesday a lovely group of BMW employees joined us at the farm to create a 'living fence' for us at the back of Berry's Cafe. The living fence will be planted with lots of herbs and edible plants which the cooking team can use in the lovely meals they make for us at the farm. The team did a fantastic job and the area is being planted as this is typed! We would like to say a huge thank you to the team as not only did they do a great job they also raised £400 for the materials…