Category Archives: Life on the Farm

Growing Social Media Organically

From our Farm Stay in Rural Warwickshire, deciding what pigs to rear to give the fullest of flavour to our sausages, through to when to flush the ewes through so they are at their optimum for putting to the Tup are all carefully considered plans to make the most of what resources we have atContinueContinue reading “Growing Social Media Organically”

Yesterday I Killed Our Pig

The reality of being a farmer, bringing new life into the world, watching it stand for the first time, making sure it doesn’t get squashed, ensuring that it takes its first milk, watching as the energy from its new food source causes it to run taking off like a coiled spring, watching it grow, introducingContinueContinue reading “Yesterday I Killed Our Pig”

How Green are we doing?

With green fields all around us, it is easy to think that this would be green enough, but we want to do more, we are all here just for a short time and our vision for the farm is to put a little back during the time we are here.  On the 20th of OctoberContinueContinue reading “How Green are we doing?”

What Farmers Find In Their Field

On Wednesday morning, our twitter followers will have recalled us finding a horse in our field which we haven’t got, and today we found a pair of dogs which we do not have, this got me onto thinking of all of the things we have found to date. We have had Goats this Shetland ponyContinueContinue reading “What Farmers Find In Their Field”

Our Wedding day 28th May 2017

Wayne & Sue are pleased to announce their wedding date of the 28th May 2017. Since our engagement over 10 years ago, developing our business and home has cemented a sound foundation for our future together. We have been lucky enough to experience many of the joys of our chosen life on the farm includingContinueContinue reading “Our Wedding day 28th May 2017”

Looking Forward to meeting Sally Gunnell OBE

British Farming Awards 2016 Guest speaker   Olympian Sally Gunnell OBE, a farmer’s daughter who hails from Chigwell, Essex, has been announced as the guest speaker at this year’s British Farming Awards. Sally remains the only woman ever to hold four major track titles concurrently – Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth – and a world record. FollowingContinueContinue reading “Looking Forward to meeting Sally Gunnell OBE”

Its the Little Things That Count

Some four years past we stole an idea from our nearby Coughton Court, home of the gunpowder plot, now owned by the National Trust this house benefits from stunning formal gardens and its own kitchen garden and orchard. Mowing our own orchard we discovered Coughton Court were leaving the space between the trees to goContinueContinue reading “Its the Little Things That Count”