Category Archives: Life on the Farm

Still On The Fence About Social Media

On the fence is a good place to start, at least you know where you’re at. For us at Oaks Barn Farm running a sucessful Farm Stay Business requires us to embrace many new skills, we’ve built buildings, played our hands at plumbing, electrics, built roads managed water courses, and are still learning every dayContinueContinue reading “Still On The Fence About Social Media”

Still On The Fence About Social Media

On the fence is a good place to start, at least you know where you’re at. For us at Oaks Barn Farm running a sucessful Farm Stay Business requires us to embrace many new skills, we’ve built buildings, played our hands at plumbing, electrics, built roads managed water courses, and are still learning every dayContinueContinue reading “Still On The Fence About Social Media”

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?”

Farm Stay Reaches International Audience

  Located in Rural Warwickshire, our working farm and growing Farm Stay Business provides its guests with a tranquil retreat within easy reach of all that Shakespeare’s England has to offer. Communicating this message however has required the farm to diversify in more ways than one. Managing our own content has always been important, soContinueContinue reading “Farm Stay Reaches International Audience”

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see theContinueContinue reading “2015 in review”

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”

Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract

  Approved  Warwickshire Based Oaks Barn Farm have today heard of their sucess in securing a 20 year contract for their Biomass Heating Plant with Ofgem. Some 12 months after installation, the process has not been one without headaches and sleepless nights, but the work and significant investment has secured the farms future heating needsContinueContinue reading “Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract”

Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract

  Approved  Warwickshire Based Oaks Barn Farm have today heard of their sucess in securing a 20 year contract for their Biomass Heating Plant with Ofgem. Some 12 months after installation, the process has not been one without headaches and sleepless nights, but the work and significant investment has secured the farms future heating needsContinueContinue reading “Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract”

Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract

  Approved  Warwickshire Based Oaks Barn Farm have today heard of their sucess in securing a 20 year contract for their Biomass Heating Plant with Ofgem. Some 12 months after installation, the process has not been one without headaches and sleepless nights, but the work and significant investment has secured the farms future heating needsContinueContinue reading “Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Secure 20 Year Renewable Heat Incentive Contract”

Feeling Thankful

Sunday December 13th on the Farm, a wet day started off like all of the others with the animal feeds and mucking out, with not much goodness left in the grass our sheep and residual lambs are now being supplemented with hay and feed.  Our pig is now with the boar borrowed from our neighbouringContinueContinue reading “Feeling Thankful”