Category: Friesland Farm

Apologies for last weeks post as I forgot to add a title!! We are fast approaching Mid Summer/Summer Solstice and as yet do not seem to have had much of a summer at all! A traditional way to celebrate Midsummer’s eve is with a bonfire, quite appropriate this year as the temperatures have not really…

I hope you all had a relaxing Bank Holiday Weekend, although the weather was pretty miserable wasn’t it!! The temperatures are not very good for the time of the year and as a result the vegetable garden is struggling, today I have ordered some proper wind break to try to create a microclimate in order…

I have started today’s blog three times now, not satisfied with what I was writing on the first two attempts, after giving it some thought, I decided I am having one of ‘those’ days! I suppose everyone has them, the days when you question what it is you are doing, aiming for, trying to achieve,…

At the beginning of the week I had such a massive ‘to do’ list that I had to prioritize or nothing would have got done at all, thankfully with the help of the rest of the family we have nearly ploughed through all of them 🙂 The lambs have been high up on the list,…

Thank you to those that took part in the rain dance, we seemed to have achieved it!! We have had a good soaking which will spur on the paddocks, the veg beds and unfortunately the weeds, but you can’t have it all 🙂 We finally caught the marauding fox last night as well, we borrowed…

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend, especially the Royal Wedding, being a houseful of girls we watched in style with a Champagne brunch, oooooed and arrrhhhed at the dress, the hair, and melted when William commented that Kate looked beautiful, we commented on the awful choice of hat by Beatrice and waited with baited breath for…

What a glorious week we have had weather wise, I hope you have all enjoyed the Easter weekend out in the sunshine. Here on the farm we had a tea party on the lawn on Easter Sunday which was lovely and very English, all the best china came out, we had cucumber sandwiches and scones…

Its been a busy and eventful week, I had just sold the last three hens when a new batch of 30 arrived the very next day. It was a quick turnaround as I was not expecting them until next week, so after a phone call at 3.45 to say they were being delivered, I had…

We are back from our holiday, which was such a treat, the weather was hot and we visited some lovely places including a cider museum in Brittany, so I have picked up so tips ready to make mine in the autumn. So much has happened even in the short time we were gone, six new lambs…

I thought I would write this week about our larger 4 legged friends on the farm, we have 4 large dogs, two of them are Siberian Husky and live outside and 2 Collies live inside. This week the collies Max & Milly had their annual haircut, well more of a shave really. Max has a thick…