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26 Sep 2018

Lloyds lend a hand

Last week we had a huge team (over 100 people!) come from Lloyds to come and tackle some projects at the farm with us. By the end of the day it looked like a fairy godmother had come and waved a magic wand around the farm! The groups split into several teams tackling different projects around the farm. Three of the teams headed to the winter field where the horses and sheep will be throughout the winter. The fields fence line was tidied up as the team pruned back a lot of branches allowing us to check the fencing a…

10 Aug 2018

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New Recruits

Once again we have had another busy and rather hot few weeks at the farm! The warm weather has certainly been testing and we have now become very skilled at finding shady areas to carry on working in! The wood work team have been incredibly busy building a new office which is absolutely fantastic! The autumn bedding plants are starting to spring into action and we have some really fantastic plants and baskets available this year! All are on sale at the front of Berrys Cafe so if your passing be sure to pop in and take a look! Our…

03 Jul 2018

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A big surprise from Eversfield School

This blog is to say a huge thank you to all the students, teachers and parents at Eversfield School who chose the farm as their charity for the year. The students have been taking part in a huge amount of activities to raise money as well as regularly coming down and visiting us at the farm to see what we get up to on a day-to-day basis. They also designed and created our fantastic new sign at the front gates! A couple of weeks ago Eversfield invited Kate our horticulture instructor to their open afternoon, where they presented us…

15 Jun 2018

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Lex Auto Lease spread their magic again!

Its been a busy couple of months at the farm with everything really growing and fruit and veg starting to be harvested from the vegetable beds and poly tunnels. Last week we were joined by our good friends from Lex Auto Lease again for a couple of days volunteering at the farm. The vegetable beds benefited from some weeding from the team so that new seeds can be sown and existing vegetables can continue to thrive. The next huge make over was for the field shelter which was looking in a very sorry state after this very wet winter! The…

06 Mar 2018

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Beast from the east wont stop Xoserve

Last Tuesday and Wednesday we were joined at the farm by a team from Xoserve who came to put up our new tipi fencing, help us with log splitting and start the new compost bays. This was the beginning of the 'beast from the east' and what started as a flutter of snow quickly turned into making this a very challenging couple of days for the teams! At the end of day one we had a beautiful new enclosed Tipi area which looked absolutely fantastic! The team did a fantastic job bashing in over 20 posts and then attaching the…

22 Dec 2017

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Winter Wonderland

All the snow certainly seemed to bring Christmas in with a bang! The pregnant ewes were top of our list for food and water and they were pretty keen to be fed! The woodland is continuing through its re-generation process and it is really starting to take shape! We also have some fantastic native plants to put in the under growth which will encourage more wildlife. There is lots going on with the veg beds but for now it is safely tucked away under a layer of compost! The winter pots on the other hand are showing off in all…

28 Nov 2017

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Christmas Sales Day! 1/12/17 11-3pm (Blog)

Christmas sales day is this week and we have lots of lovely treats for you to purchase ready for Christmas! We have heaps of homemade jams, chutneys and apple juice for you to browse as well as some woodwork crafts and calendars. We have also partnered up with We Tree Kings again and will be selling trees directly from the farm and from Morrisons Solihull. If you are going to buy a real tree this year be sure to check us out as they are such a good quality! The animals will also be out and about to meet everyone…

28 Sep 2017

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Juicing and Jamming

Farm life is busy as ever so here's a snapshot of whats been going on! There is always plenty of fencing to be re-done at the farm and we have now started at the bottom of the farm field. We are trying to replace it in stages so that all the fields can still be used with no escapees! Its always so satisfying to stand back and check out all your hard work with a nice fence! The tortoises are a great indicator of the changing seasons as they start to slow down and prepare to hibernate. Terrance and Tequila…

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…

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…