Category Archives: grow your own

Bringing home the bacon

Just salted down 4 kilo of bacon from our 2 pigs, filled a freezer with joints and traded up 40kilo of sausage ready for our farm stay guests. One week later and here is the result: So the taste test… Simply amazing.. For more information on our Farm Stay Options visit our website Oaksbarnfarm.co.uk

Oaks Barn Farm Pumpkin Soup

Winter Warmer Pumpkin Soup Ingredients * 2 tbsp olive oil * 2 onion finely chopped * 1kg pumpkin ), peeled, deseeded and chopped into chunks * 4 red chillies de seed and finely chop * 700ml vegetable stock or chicken stock * 1 pot of reduced fat creme fresh Method * Heat 2 tbsp oliveContinueContinue reading “Oaks Barn Farm Pumpkin Soup”

MINT AND GOOSEBERRY JELLY RECIPE

Perfect with Lamb Its that time on the farm where the orchard is supplying us with more ingredients than either we or the birds can cope with, so looking ahead to winter the following recipe should help in getting that taste of summer all year round from a jar of heaven. INGREDIENTS: MINT AND GOOSEBERRYContinueContinue reading “MINT AND GOOSEBERRY JELLY RECIPE”

A Little More Green Sir?

A Little More Green Sir? Ten years on at Oaks Barn Farm and still growing.  This spring has seen the launch of our Come Grow With Us Project on the Farm, we recognise that our guests have a desire to get back to nature and the simplicity of eating healthily. We are now able to offerContinueContinue reading “A Little More Green Sir?”

Raised bed planter inspiration

This is our latest experiment on the farm, we wanted some raised beds but the cost and longevity of using timber plus the idea of tantalised chemicals leaching into our organic beds caused us to look a little further. At a recent farm sale we purchased 3 galvanised cattle drinkers for £35 each, we thenContinueContinue reading “Raised bed planter inspiration”

Ten years on Oaks Barn Farm

This year sees a 10 year milestone of developing our luxury Farm Stay at Oaks Barn Farm, though a family home for 30 years, diversification through opening up our farm, for others to experience the magic of living in this lovely piece of rural England has been a journey of hard work dedication and aContinueContinue reading “Ten years on Oaks Barn Farm”

Growing Spaces

 Part of the farms social enterprise, our new growing space will add another skill set enabling guests and volunteers to gain a deeper understanding of where their food comes from   Shane of Norton College Gate Hanging at Oaks Barn Farm For more information on our Farm Stay options visit: http://bit.ly/FarmStayOptions

Green Farm Stay 

It’s close to our financial year end, and whilst we keep a keen eye on the farms financial growth we measure more than just that at Oaks Barn Farm. Global travel opens up a wide range of travel opportunities, we wanted our guests to book with us safe in the knowledge that their holiday hasContinueContinue reading “Green Farm Stay “

Is it a Working Farm?

  Well with the amount of things we have to fix around the farm, it should be, but yes we have a growing flock of sheep with lambing due to start during the third week of March, and currently a sow in pig with her litter being due in March/April. I love this time ofContinueContinue reading “Is it a Working Farm?”

Sorry No Vacancies This Year

Sorry No Vacancies marks the end of another exciting year at Oaks Barn Farm, today our final set of guests arrive with both The Coach House and The Granary being full for the New Year celebrations.    2015 has seen the completion of The Granary, and the welcoming of its first guests in February, inContinueContinue reading “Sorry No Vacancies This Year”