Ian Davies

Here are our two little Oxford Sandy and Black piggies. They are 10 weeks old and pretty heavy! They settled into their new home last night and then we let them out into the field this morning. They were exploring their new paddock, testing the boundaries and then one decided to take on the electric … Read more

Had a fantastic weekend down at the Magdalen Project. I was one of 16 people, on their ‘Learning for Growth’ course – all about growing your own organic veg and keeping livestock. Really interesting weekend and I’ve come away with lots of plans for my veg plot as well as how the chickens can help compost … Read more

Recently purchased 8 new sheep for the farm.  The three in the foreground are our Suffolk sheep and the slightly camera shy brown and white sheep are the new Jacob sheep, known for their lovely fleeces. Will try to take some close up pictures.

Our new arrivals: Lutikka – the beautiful black hen very kindly given to us by some of our campers. We’ve learnt that you should never introduce just one hen to a group… they are cruel! Think “hen pecked”, “pecking order”…. all friends now but it took a good few days before they let her out … Read more

A fab weekend – still recovering! For Saturday night we had guitars, keyboard, drums and a sax all jamming away in the music tent with words on the screen so we could sing along. We also had campfire songs and junk percussion around the campfire. Torrential rain didn’t dampen the spirits, just the fire so … Read more

We’ve just spent a fun afternoon, along with campers, building two tyre rope swings. These are in the field next to the campsite, along the river walk. Ian is doing the final test on the swing and making a monkey of himself – more pictures in the photo gallery.

I woke to a very strange sight the other day. Here’s how the story goes… …no not a UFO, but a feed bin. Some strange characters knocking about though.

Chloe is a first year vet student at Liverpool Uni and spent three days with us at the end of June. She was keen to learn all about goats and get as much experience as possible. Here she is giving one of the kids a clostridial vaccination. She also helped with the foot trimming, vaccinating … Read more

The goats are out! We have made a paddock at the front of the building and 21 goats and 3 sheep are all happily settled in. They took a fair bit of coaxing out of the old shed and it took several trips shaking a bucket of feed to get them all across. They seem … Read more