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10 Nov 2020

Scarecrow Festival 2020

Following on from the success of last years scarecrow festival we decided to get creative again this year and to have some fun. We think you will agree that the standard has been set high again with some fantastic designs displayed! Here are a few down below - The winner of the festival was the horticulture teams Dr Who and Dalek. The scarecrows have now made their way over to Fountains Care Home to be entered into their competition. Fingers crossed for another winner!

09 Apr 2013

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Weather Watching!

The difference in weather during the space of a couple of weeks has been remarkable! Hopefully this week will see the real arrival of spring and we can enjoy some good weather! Minus the April showers if possible! The heater which keeps the young plants warm during the spring cold snaps decided that it would be a good time to break down, and as a result we lost some of our young bedding plants unfortunately. The remaining plants got treated to a few nights in the office until the new heater arrived to put in the green house. The gardening…

04 Feb 2013

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Spring preperations have started!

Project worker forums took place last week which allowed the project workers to discuss any ideas they have for the farm for now and in the future. It is a great time for everyone to share their views and to make sure that what we are doing at the farm is what everyone wants (although ideas of elephants in the animal care section may not be achieved!). Aside from the project worker forums the whole farm has been catching up with work that wasn't able to be done in the snow. The horses field is finally poo picked much to…

26 Nov 2012

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We can’t get enough of digging…

We just can't get enough of digging here at NBF and now we have moved all the sand into the arena it was time for a new challenge. Que 120 tonnes of top soil kindly donated by the NEC for us to use around the farm. It looks like we have some super size moles around the farm! Thank you so much to the team at the NEC for dropping it off to us and for letting us have it. It's already made its way into the cottage garden and will be making its way down to the veg beds…

16 Nov 2012

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Quiet time…

Well compared to shovelling all the sand last week, this week has been a little quieter on the farm. The sand is in the arena and our new motto has been roll roll roll! We will hopefully be getting the rubber to go on top as soon as possible and we will soon be able to use the arena as much as possible! There is some exciting news in the horse care, with a new addition arriving on Monday! Badger is a 13hh piebald (black and white) gelding (boy) who has a lovely easy going nature and a very chilled out attitude towards life! There aren't any pictures of…

20 Jul 2012

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Hibernation…

Its been another week of us trying to hide from the weather! The plus side of this is that the show jumps have all received a welcome lick of paint and are now looking nice and bright in the field. We even had time to add some cool designs to some of the planks! On Thursday 18 Reynolds Cross School students came to visit the farm and have some lunch in Berry's Cafe. Jimbo received a lot of attention during the morning when he did a meet and greet with the students! The gardening group have welcomed a small break (very small break) in…