Category: Friesland Farm

What a lovely day, I don’t think I have been able to write that for a while! I have no idea what has happened to our Spring or Summer seasons, they are unrecognisable this year and make for a challenging growing season. Having said that we are beginning to get a bit of produce, a…

Were did that week go?? The Summer Solstice is almost upon us and still not much in the way of a Summer and certainly not flaming June! Still at least the hosepipe ban has been lifted, I should think so too :p We have had some new arrivals on the farm this week, the first…

I find that some weeks tend to be dominated by one particular element of the farm and this week it was definitely the poultry, we have had the arrival of some naturally hatched chicks, 6 in total, of which 4 were promptly eaten on the day they came out of the hut! We suspect it…

It is all systems go on the farm at the moment, we spent last week getting all the rest of the veg plants in the ground so apart from one bed, which is a bit too much like clay and therefore difficult to plant, every available inch of space has been filled! The process for…

Good Morning, well nearly afternoon, I had to go to the dreaded dentist this morning and have only just got back so by the time I have written and published it will probably be afternoon. We had another busy weekend finishing off the poly tunnel, we had some help from my Stepdad which was much appreciated…

Another Monday morning, another wet weather forecast for the week ahead, but at least we had a half decent weekend and as always when the weather is good we work hard! The big job this weekend was to get the polytunnel under construction, we made good progress and the frame went up within a few hours,…

Well we knew the weather was bad but now reports of a Tornado over parts of West Oxfordshire have completely topped it! I have to say that the hailstones were big and the wind whipped up but luckily the Tornado did not touch ground here thank goodness 🙂 During one of the two dry days…

Today I will be writing the blog while on my coffee breaks, so this may not get published until late, the reason being that today is the first dry day that we have had in well over a week and I really need t get some jobs done while I can!! The week seems to…

Well clearly ever since the hosepipe ban was announced we haven’t needed it anyway!!! The water butts are full to overflowing, the fields are very quickly saturated each time we have a downpour and everything we planted in the garden over the last few weeks has not dried out at all. According to the weatherman its…