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The Farm in July 2022
Well, the hay is finally made and in the barn and the spring barley and oats are nearly ready to harvest. It has been a challenging year...
Pat H
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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Happy New Year
Welcome back, we hope you had a great Christmas and New Year and that this is the year when things start to improve for all of us. Our...
Pat H
Jan 5, 20222 min read
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March 2021 - a very busy month ahead
Well, we're still in lockdown, some of us have had our jabs and some still waiting but the farm carries on regardless. This February we...
Pat H
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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December 2020, the end of a strange year..
Well, it's nearly Christmas and we are getting organised so that we can have a few days off. The rams are beimg removed from their ewes...
Pat H
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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July 2020, beyond the pandemic...
I hope this finds you all as well as can be expected and that you have been surviving lockdown as best you can. We sadly lost a member of...
Pat H
Jul 1, 20202 min read
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Waiting for Spring...
Well, as we all know it has rained this winter - a lot! The ground is now saturated but at least we are much luckier than a lot of folk...
Pat H
Feb 21, 20202 min read
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Going into winter
Well, November has been extremely wet this year and the ground is saturated. It means that we are very careful with the land and try not...
Pat H
Nov 29, 20192 min read
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Harvest
Well, we're in September now and the harvest went really well in the end. Even with the very wet August our contractors, Cornbury Farm...
Pat H
Sep 5, 20191 min read
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White Park cattle
This month we put our bulls out with their cows. I thought I'd give you a brief history of one of our breeds as they have quite a...
Pat H
Jul 18, 20192 min read
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June - and it's raining!
We're having a complete battle with the weather and getting the sheep sheared. We've managed to shear the commercial flock but the Manx...
Pat H
Jun 13, 20192 min read
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Calving
Well, the lambing has finished and all the ewes are out on fresh pasture with their lambs. Calving has just begun with a beautiful White...
Pat H
May 6, 20192 min read
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Lambing
Lambing is now well underway with our primitive breeds, Manx Loaghtan and Castlemilk Moorit, lambing first. These breeds have no trouble...
Pat H
Apr 3, 20192 min read
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Spring
The first signs of spring have arrived, probably a little early this year though. The snowdrops are all out along with crocuses and...
Pat H
Mar 2, 20192 min read
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Winter is here...
Well, the snow has arrived and put a stop to the building of the holiday let. However, at the end of last week the scaffolders arrived...
Pat H
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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The Old Dairy - groundworks begin
Henry Timmis Landscape and Groundworks https://www.facebook.com/LandscapingAndGroundworkshenrytimmis/ have begun the groundworks today...
Pat H
Jan 9, 20191 min read
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The Old Dairy
Our 2019 project is the conversion of an old dairy building into a 3 bedroom holiday let. As these images show there is a lot to do but...
Pat H
Dec 28, 20181 min read
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