Firstly, because we would really love you to. Of course, at an AGM there is the dry procedural stuff, it’s a legal requirement, but there is so much more. It’s an opportunity to hear directly from the people who grow your food.
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The summer is flying by and we have already started to get the first harvests off the fields like onions, potatoes and squash. The Spring was very late this year, however, Summer is not over yet.
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The summer is flying by and we have already started to get the first harvests off the fields like onions, potatoes and squash. The Spring was very late this year, however, Summer is not over yet.
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is probably one of the most dusty, itchy, and sweaty jobs we do, as oats are an incredibly dusty grain. Yet the satisfaction of seeing a full trailer of homegrown oats to feed our pigs and chickens and give milking parlour snacks to our cows throughout the next year makes it totally worth it and we have a lot of fun doing it too!
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Over the summer I have started to take Pip the sheepdog out with me and we’re starting to work together well.
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This year we have already taken delivery of very healthy quantities of local honey with more expected. These beekeepers only take what the bees don’t need themselves and leave enough honey in the hives for them to feed on during the winter.
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With the grass already looking greener, it also gives a nudge to start thinking about the inevitable autumn. In the wetter months we have to manually carry everything to the chicken houses. To ease this load, we position the tunnels further down the hill, closer to the track.
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As many of you may know, I love food. I still get very excited by the produce coming from the Plaw Hatch garden and never more so than at this time of year. My summer suppers are variations on a theme but almost always involve courgettes, beans and tomatoes. These are my favourites.
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The prolonged dry conditions and intense heat have had a significant effect on everyone at the farm.
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Maya, Miriam and Louisa kicked the year off by attending the Oxford Real Farming Conference.