The garden has burst into life bringing some much needed colour!
What a lot of rain we have had. The field by the drive had enough standing water to attract ducks! With some warmer days, and nights, the Catkins and Snowdrops […]
Category Archives: The Farm
Our long awaited final autumn calf has arrived!
A rather typical week by English weather standards. Mild and damp for most of the week then cold and frosty at the end but a week in which we successfully […]
Happy New Year from Rush Farm
Happy New Year to you all and I hope Christmas was all you could have hoped for. Here on the farm the last ten days or so have been very […]
A day in the life of a WWOOFer
Here at Stockwood, we are lucky enough to have WWOOFers from all over the world to help us with the day to day running of the farm. It’s a fantastic experience […]
A fabulous year on Rush Farm
Another mild, dank and murky week has passed, and we have been hidden in the main in the fog – being in a dip as we are here at Rush […]
100 Lambs sold – And to Organic buyers no less
If this is even less coherent than usual, it is not simply because I missed the Rugby on Saturday and feel greatly deprived as a result of this, but more, […]
A mixed week… TB free but the loss of a calf
All pretty positive this week… until this Sunday morning when Chris and Tim had to extract a dead calf from its mother. On the stock front this has been a […]
Frosty mornings, a Super Moon and some home made honey
After a relatively quiet few days, the diary is very full for the coming week. There have of course been some excitements, but these largely centred on matters relating to […]
A WWOOFer-less Winter fast approaching
As I write this the signs that winter is approaching are only too obvious. The wind is clearly coming to us directly from the Arctic and we are expecting really […]
Despite the Cricket, the overall feeling is one of quiet satisfaction
Despite a pathetic performance by the English Cricket Test team this morning the overall feeling is one of quiet satisfaction. Our Demeter inspection on Wednesday was positive in every sense […]
