Well this is supposed to be the time of year where all our eyes turn to the weather and the impending hay harvest. Well the weather has certainly been fine this year with the sunniest and driest May on record with only 3mm of rain falling in the entire month.This may be good for our […]

We planted 50 grape vines 2 yrs ago with the aim to produce wine for ourselves. I’m please to say they are doing well. All 50 have survived and flourishing we have amix of red and white grapes and despite the late frost this year we have lots of young grape bunches to here hoping […]

With a litte extra time on our hands we though we might set up our night vision camera and see what occurs in the wee small hours. Initially it looked like the most exciting visitors were the ever present Rabbits And the occasional appearance from Doug. However, once we got to the witching hour, a […]

Well its not just us humans who are having to make do and adapt during this crisis. Our sheep were distinctly suffering with the un-seasonal heat we have been having. Whilst we enjoyed the sunshine, our sheep were not so happy. Bramble coping better than Doug as she had had a partial “shave ” due […]

Well With all the Bad news around at the moment its nice to be able to report a new arrival at the Orchard. Our first New born ! Welcome to the world “Blackberry” Our new lamb. Born early on Sunday(27th) Morning to first time mum Bramble. I am please to report that mum and baby […]

I write this at probably the most troubling time for the country in living memory. We are facing an uncertain future, we are now experiencing an almost total lock down of the country. It all seems a little surreal, some people are very poorly, the NHS is at breaking point, People panic buying everything from […]

We have battled the Brambles and harassed the Hawthorn to re-discover a long lost stock fence. Thanks to a merry band of helpers, fine weather and extensive use of , we have managed to cut back and tame about 100 m of Bramble to re-establish the boundary of the Hay field. We now have a […]

This week has revolved around hedging or should i say Brambling. We have finally got round to starting work on the hedge next to the pub. After many hot and prickly hours we have managed to cut back the brambles to the original stock fence for a distance of approx 50m. We still have a […]

Well it has done nothing but rain for what seems like the past few months. The fields have so much water sitting on them i’m surprised we haven’t had ducks move in! Unfortunately we have had one casualty of the storms with the loss of one of our older apple trees. So we are looking […]

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