The Farm
9th July 2018
And still the cuckoo calls! Has he no idea of the near disaster farming in this country is facing as a result of the longest period […]
2nd July 2018
This has been a productive week on the farm. An additional four fields were cut and baled as hay, meaning we now have in storage just […]
25th June 2018
My concerns about the weather have proved well founded. According to the ‘experts’ we have had but a fraction of the rain we might have expected […]
18th June 2018
As Milly stole the show last week in the shared photograph of her after her having helped work the sheep, this week you find her entirely […]
13th June 2018
As rapidly as it finally arrived, spring seems to have already turned into summer. Trees, hedges and verges show this only too clearly. Strange weather we […]
5th June 2018
Happily, we have had another heifer calf – again completely unassisted. At the end of the week, while the young stock still had plenty of grass, […]
1st June 2018
Pastures flourish We need not have feared about the lack of rain. It fell in great quantities towards the end of the week. That and the […]
1st June 2018
Bea left us only weeks ago, and when she left, as a result of dedicated weeding, the garden showed signification patches of bare earth. Today those […]
14th May 2018
For this week at least, all seems well in our little patch of England. The world outside is green, with waterfalls of white from the blossom […]