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25 Jul 2017

Bees, BBQs and Butterflies

What a scorcher July has been! It has been another busy month at the farm with lots of weddings taking place in the tipi! The bees have finally arrived and are settling in well. They have already been busy collecting nectar from the vegetable beds and we are all looking forward to trying some of their honey next year! We have welcomed some new additions to the farm today who are yet to be named. As most of you know we always end up giving them very unique names and we are sure pulling their names out of the hat…

28 Jun 2017

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Lex Autolease give us a makeover

On Tuesday a team of 39 came to lend us a hand from Lex Autolease who are part of Lloyds Banking group. We set the team several hard challenges with the hope that they would make a start on them for us. Well they completely smashed our goals and finished all the projects we set them! The arena fencing has looked more and more tipsy over the past 6 months and so a team set to work getting the old posts out and setting some new ones in place. Many of the old posts were heavily concreted into place and…

09 Jun 2017

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Goat Goals

Our good friends from Loyds joined us from all over the country again on Wednesday to help us with another mammoth challenge! This time there was a deadline to the task as the team had some new arrivals to get the enclosure ready for, three baby goats! Thirty five willing employees from Lloyds joined us to help build the new enclosure which required a lot of muscle power! Over thirty posts had to be bashed into the ground before the group could even begin with the wire fencing on top and the gravel boards at the bottom. There were also…

16 May 2017

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We completed our Triathlon!

I'm sure that most of you have seen the pictures of the team finishing the triathlon this weekend and the pained look in their faces whilst completing each of their relevant sections! It was one hell of a challenge but the usual NBF team spirit was in full swing and we all cheered each other through! Our total stands at £1100 at the moment with more sponsorship still coming in :) Here are three of the swimmers just finishing there 1500m swim in the lake! The cyclists come home after finishing 60k out on the roads.. Then the runners take…

21 Apr 2017

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Spring Sales Day 5th May!

As you can see on the pictures the lambs are now getting pretty big and extra cheeky! They are into everything and like their moms have quickly learnt that the blue bucket means tasty mix to eat! The plants for the sales day are coming on really well and the green house is now bursting with colour! We will have plenty of bedding plants and hanging baskets available to buy on 5th May 2017 11am-3pm. All the information for the sales day is listed below and we will remind you a little closer to the time also :) Fingers crossed…

31 Mar 2017

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Storm Doris Vodafone Rescue Team

On Wednesday a team of 10 Vodafone service managers joined us at the farm to help start rebuilding some of the fencing damaged by storm Doris. They very kindly decided to help re-build our muck heap which looked like a bad guy with laser vision had sliced through the concrete posts after the shelter had taken off and smashed through it. It was a huge task to under take and involved digging out all the original posts, creating new holes and concreting the new posts back in again. The painting crew giving the panels a new lease of life and…

28 Mar 2017

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Lamb Spam!

March means lambing at the farm and this year has been especially busy with lots of lambs arriving! This year we welcomed 12 lambs, which broke down into a set of quads, two sets of triplets and one set of twins. The ewes have got their work cut out that's for sure! We will be keeping a close eye on them to make sure that the ewes are getting all the extra feed they need and that non of the lambs are missing out on any milk! The lambing camera worked really well and allowed us to be on site…

16 Feb 2017

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Fancy February

February has seen some huge developments at the farm! Heritage and Sons construction came to the farm to install several new water troughs in the fields and to provide water to our vegetable beds so that during the summer months we don't have to find miles and miles of hose pipes! The project workers loved watching the digger do all of the hard work and as the weather was so dry you would hardly know any work has been done at all! Keeping bio diversity and productivity in mind, the woodland has now reached semi maturity and the canopy has…

10 Jan 2017

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Our bug hotel is officially open!

Happy new year to all our lovely supporters of the farm! We had some great news last week that all of our ewes are pregnant so we will be lambing again in March! This will be our third time lambing but with only four ewes this year. All being well we will then lamb all 9 of our ewes in 2018 which will hopefully result in lots more lambs for us to look after! The frosty mornings make everything sparkle at the farm and in turn we usually get a lovely get sunrise to match! The frost also means…

10 Dec 2016

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A Christmas Surprise

The countdown to Christmas is now fast approaching and we started it off with a fantastic sales day! Thank you so much to everyone who came and supported us, all the money raised goes directly back to the farm and helps us carry on developing further. Those of you who came on the sales day will have met our very special new member at the farm... As part of a second year project a group of students from the university of Worcester had to raise some money to enhance a community. They very kindly selected the farm and set about…