Tag Archives: Oaks Barn Farm

Understanding the food chain

One of our favourite parts of running a family farm stay. Collecting eggs for breakfast direct from our hens in the orchard, is just one of the magical parts of children having the opportunity to reconnect with nature. For more information on booking a family farm stay and the range of accommodation on offer visitContinueContinue reading “Understanding the food chain”

Exceeding Our Guest Expectations

This week has seen the enhanced installation of a guest 4G network linking The Granary, The Coach House and Shepherd’s View to the EE 4G network. What this will mean for our guests, access to Netflix and Amazon Prime accounts, higher download speeds and full network access around the farm. Additional benefits have given theContinueContinue reading “Exceeding Our Guest Expectations”

Red Pepper & Tomato Soup

Clearing the freezer from last year’s produce. Red peppers Tomatoes Garlic Worcestershire sauce Salt & pepper to season Stock cube Chillies Cooked on the log burner for that true winter feel. Add water or white wine wine as required Allow to cool and blend to desired consistency.

Recycled plastic chicken pen

Today we took delivery of our new hen pad allowing our chickens to graze in the orchard whilst being protected from mr fox. Supplied by Solway Recycling https://www.solwayrecycling.co.uk/recycling-services this UK based company produce a range of products from recycled plastics fitting our environmental policy whilst at the same time supplying eggs to our farm stayContinueContinue reading “Recycled plastic chicken pen”

Measuring our Contribution

In a world where travel is how we relax and escape the trappings of our modern society I spent some time today to calculate the true value of what our guests contribute when booking a farm Stay with us. I have based the contribution on a few assumptions for a typical 7 night stay, theseContinueContinue reading “Measuring our Contribution”

Celebrating 12 Years in The Family Farm Stay Business

Our Timeline Journey of just some of the events of Oaks Barn Farm over The Past 12 years: September 2006 Coach House Conversion is completed. February 2007 we plant the orchard with 30 trees and establish the perimeter hedge. In July 2010 Wayne left Stoke on Trent College and his work with the Princes TrustContinueContinue reading “Celebrating 12 Years in The Family Farm Stay Business”

Some of our guests travel thousands of miles to stay on our Farm

Some of our guests travel thousands of miles to stay on our Farm, so some might think the responsibility is overwhelming, however our business is based on simple principles. We travel, our friends say “what you’re away again?” Quite simply we are, to stay ahead of the game we travel extensively and whilst on theContinueContinue reading “Some of our guests travel thousands of miles to stay on our Farm”

Getting guests through the door and leaving great reviews

Next year will be our 10th Anniversary of running our Family Farm Stay Business, like most small businesses, you have to wear many hats, in addition to feeding the pigs sheep and chickens we also play host to a variety of guests both domestic and international. We are happy to share some of our secretsContinueContinue reading “Getting guests through the door and leaving great reviews”

My switch to wordpress for website content

After a frustrating and restrictive experience with microsoft, have today taken the plunge to migrate our website content onto wordpress. For many years I have written our farm blog using WordPress so the transition was fairly straight forward and their online help was both quick and helpful. This switch will also be a Significant costContinueContinue reading “My switch to wordpress for website content”

Oaks Barn Farm New additions for the coming season.

Let us start with apologies for not updating you sooner, but lambing on the farm has a habit of taking over everything on until it’s done.   Lambing We have had an exceptional year with a high number of triplets, which unfortunately means feeding those lambs taken off their mother because they can only feedContinueContinue reading “Oaks Barn Farm New additions for the coming season.”