Latest News from the Farm
Christmas is coming!
All the hype for Christmas with the shops and TV, its all an expense we can do without at the moment – most is just more rubbish for the landfill in 6 months time. But we all want to be able to give something at Christmas, so how about making gifts from your kitchen for [...]
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Bat, Balls & Buffet Bonanza!
Tonight is the annual table-tennis tournament – all good fun, delicious food and for a good cause: raising funds for Open Hands India …watch this space for the results – there are some very competitive people coming along!
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Marmalade!
Seville oranges, one of the last remaining truly ‘seasonal’ fruits, are in the shops! Grab them while you can and make this delicious Seville Orange Marmalade Recipe. This is one of Pam Corbin’s from my new River Cottage Handbook on ‘Preserves‘ (thank you Nathaniel x). Pam doesn’t bother with the pips-in-muslin routine – which has [...]
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Beekeeping Workshop
Nick Wills, assisted by his Huntstile residents bees, is teaching an intensive weekend workshop on how to look after bees and produce honey. This intensive 2 day course is a good mixture of practical hands-on experience working with the bees, alongside the relevant knowledge and history that you will need to look after your own [...]
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Jazz Workshop at Huntstile!
A Happy New Year to all! We are looking forward to another fun packed year. John and I have been quite busy over the last few months planning for the coming year on our organic farm. Crop rotations on the arable side of our little enterprise here, which fields will be producing organic wheat, which [...]
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Wedding in the Dove Loft
Jenni & Will celebrated their marriage at Huntstile this week, with a beautiful ceremony in our Dining Hall (pictured on the left here) led by their good friend Doug, followed by a sumptuous feast (A.K.A. ‘the wedding breakfast’!) in the romantic Dove Loft above the cafe (below). Jenni designed the decor herself – it looked [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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