The Farm
26th February 2025
Apologies for the delay in sending out the blog. The cafe is now in its fourth week, and has been keeping us very busy, but busy […]
27th January 2025
While today will apparently, literally, be the calm before the storm, so these last two weeks have felt similarly eerily quiet. The lambs are content and […]
21st January 2025
Well, hello 2025! Our weather station recorded -8 this morning, nothing in the light of the -10 recorded last Friday. In-between those two? A night of […]
21st December 2024
The Farmer’s Almanac believed that if March’s weather began ‘roaring like a lion’, the month would end ‘gentle like a lamb’. With our confused weather these […]
18th November 2024
One of the most important events of our farming calendar, the 5th of November, has been reached. Not important to us because of Guy Fawkes, although […]
15th October 2024
A ground frost is forecast for us tonight, and after the amount of rain we have received in the last week, we are quite relieved for […]
14th September 2024
September has arrived, and the misty mornings and cooler nights are part and parcel of this year’s steady march towards the cooler months ahead. The hedges […]
19th July 2024
It has been an event filled fortnight here! On the 6th we hosted the SCBS AGM, and on the 7th we hosted the West Midlands Shetland Sheep society […]
10th July 2024
If you are feeling a sense of jet lag after the last 24 hours, Thistle wants you to know that she understands. Across the farm, the […]