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Pat H
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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...
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Pat H
Jan 5, 20222 min read
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...
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Pat H
Mar 13, 20212 min read
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...
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Pat H
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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...
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Pat H
Jul 1, 20202 min read
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...
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Pat H
Feb 21, 20202 min read
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...
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Pat H
Nov 29, 20192 min read
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...
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Pat H
Sep 5, 20191 min read
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...
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Pat H
Jul 18, 20192 min read
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...
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Pat H
Jun 13, 20192 min read
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...
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Pat H
May 6, 20192 min read
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...
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Pat H
Apr 3, 20192 min read
Lambing
Lambing is now well underway with our primitive breeds, Manx Loaghtan and Castlemilk Moorit, lambing first. These breeds have no trouble...
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Pat H
Mar 2, 20192 min read
Spring
The first signs of spring have arrived, probably a little early this year though. The snowdrops are all out along with crocuses and...
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Pat H
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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...
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Pat H
Jan 9, 20191 min read
The Old Dairy - groundworks begin
Henry Timmis Landscape and Groundworks https://www.facebook.com/LandscapingAndGroundworkshenrytimmis/ have begun the groundworks today...
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Pat H
Dec 28, 20181 min read
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...
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