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Shelley & Dan
We received this lovely photo this morning from Shelley and Dan who celebrated their wedding day here on 4th August. I must mention Shelley’s mum who made the most beautiful cake with icing flowers that I thought were real!
Family and friends decorated the marquee and house, and then had a jolly good party, great fun [...]
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John O’Groats cyclists raise funds
We had a visit this week from Rich Bower and Amanda Style, who are cycling all the way from John O’Groats to Landsend to raise money for Breast Cancer Care.
They are a lovely couple and would appreciate any sponsoring you can offer for this excellent cause – you can sponsor them by clicking on this [...]
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Courgette Soup & Soda Bread..delicious!
This is a delicious soup recipe, perfect for this time of year with the usual glut of courgettes. My lovely friend Jacqui Solomon showed me how to make this many years ago in my garden, when I was inundated with hundreds of courgettes and couldn’t think of another courgette recipe….
Note: – for all my ingredients [...]
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Frank & Marjorie
Here are John’s mum and dad, Frank (92 years young) & Marjorie (89), preparing some of their home-grown vegetables and flowers for the Spaxton Flower Show (they are an amazing couple – and you should see thier veg garden!!) ….results to follow x
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Spelt harvest
We have just harvested the spelt that we grow for Roger Saul at Sharpham Park in Shepton Mallett to transform into organic spelt flour and other organic goodies. The field looks amazing, I walked the dogs across there tonight and the views are breathtaking. Spelt is an ancient relative of wheat, recorded back as far [...]
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Luke & Helen’s wedding…
The lovely Hannah Modley, local photographer, has just sent me these wonderful pictures of Luke & Helen on their wedding day. It was a lovely service (not a dry eye in the house!) – a wedding set in our very own beautiful Somerset countryside.
We all wish Luke & Helen every happiness in their new future [...]
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Bliss!
I had to post this gorgeous picture of our very own Esther (our Gloucester Old Spot cross) as taken by HannahModley of Hannah James Photography on our Open Day in June – isn’t it just lovely?
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Moles!
So, we cure the rabbit problem in our veggie garden with a big, secure fence – no more nibbled off fennel/lettuce – but now we have an underground enemy…. moley, finished with whitewashing his house, has decided that such a good fence needs burrowing underneath and getting inside of.
I can’t blame him as we do [...]
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What’s going on…
All is good on the farm. With this wonderful weather you just wouldn’t want to be anywhere else! Here is John on the left, turning over some ground for a new fertility ley in Home Field, next to the farmhouse (closely pursued by a huge flock of seagulls!). We use rye grass and clover for [...]
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What an opportunity for Bridgwater!
Yesterday Taunton Transition Group, an enthusiastic passionate band of people concerned with reducing their carbon footprint by generally living life with a lower environmental impact, organised for the Soil Association’s very own Traci Lewis to come and give a presentation on Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA.
Its big in America and Canada and its growing in [...]
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