Ian Davies We’ve planted various areas of trees around the farm and the latest lot is 450 trees around the campsite. Silver Birch, Rowan, Ash, Holly, Dogwood and many more. Hopefully this will create a bit more interest around the site – they’re very small at the moment but looking forward to seeing them in leaf. As … Read more
Having seen an article in the Wells Journal “Bidding to boost the barn owl population”, we contacted Chris Sperring (Expert and Somerset Wildlife Trust vice-president) about how we could get involved with the scheme. He came over to the farm and thought we had just the right habitat to encourage barn owls. He was pleased … Read more
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
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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.