Category Archives: Life on the Farm

A Visitors View

We had a nice weekend break away from the pains and stresses of buying a house, in the lovely city of Worcester. Even though there was quite a bit of rain while we were there, which seems to be the running theme to our adventures of 2016, we still enjoyed ourselves and here’s five reasons […]ContinueContinue reading “A Visitors View”

A Visitors View

We had a nice weekend break away from the pains and stresses of buying a house, in the lovely city of Worcester. Even though there was quite a bit of rain while we were there, which seems to be the running theme to our adventures of 2016, we still enjoyed ourselves and here’s five reasons […]ContinueContinue reading “A Visitors View”

Not Our Farm but we have something in common

https://videopress.com/embed/jwMxOIFY?hd=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=0&loop=0 When we bought the farm we were anticipating retirement. We had an initial five year business plan. A plan which did not include a live in farm manager; we were firm in our commitment to protect our privacy. A plan which did not include a new construction project; we were firm in our commitmentContinueContinue reading “Not Our Farm but we have something in common”

Lambing 2017

Just as the soil is starting to warm and the snowdrops rise their heads from the cold of winter, the signs that summer lies just around the corner are everywhere to see. Spring is my favourite time of year on the farm, getting the lambing shed ready for the imminent arrival of this years lambs isContinueContinue reading “Lambing 2017”

An NHS to be proud of

 While good news stories rarely make the headlines, Oaks Barn Farm’s Wayne Smith as a follow on from his recent article in the Farmers Guardian, Wayne was video interviewed on Wednesday by Susan Kirkpatrick Senior Researcher from The University of Oxford as part of the Inquire Research Project.   INQUIRE (Improving NHS quality usingContinueContinue reading “An NHS to be proud of”

Digging for Bowel Cancer

What a difference a day makes at Oaks Barn Farm, we approached one of our Twitter Friends @Scottlar https://twitter.com/scottylar to do some metal detecting on our bottom fields, he said he would pay £15 per day to let him detect we said we would match fund his contribution if we could donate it towards Bowel Cancer Awareness,ContinueContinue reading “Digging for Bowel Cancer”

An Interview With Farmers Guardian

Tomorrow I am being Interviewed by Emily Cole of the Farmers Guardian, we first spoke to Emily as part of last years British Farming Awards under the Category of Digital Innovator and today I have been approached to tell my story, on my encounter with Bowel Cancer and raising awareness amongst the Farming Community about theContinueContinue reading “An Interview With Farmers Guardian”

Are You Using Pinterest’s Latest Feature

Pinterest Now lets you add 5 boards to a feature Board to showcase your business, we stumbled on this today whilst editing our profile, great new feature taking the site onto a whole new level, try it out and let us know what you think. https://uk.pinterest.com/oaksbarnfarm/

Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Get Shortlisted

Worcestershire Based Oaks Barn Farm, are delighted with being shortlisted for the category of Digital Innovator, for the British Farming Awards to be held on the 20th October 2016 with Guest speaker Sally Gunnell OBE. Working hard to build up our luxury farm stay business over the last 10 years, Oaks Barn Farm has built upContinueContinue reading “Press Release Oaks Barn Farm Get Shortlisted”