A farmer’s daybook is where they note everything going on with their herd; milk yields, health, behaviours, emotional states. Our online daybook is where you can keep up to date with the latest goings-on on the farm.
Maya, Miriam and Louisa kicked the year off by attending the Oxford Real Farming Conference.
The farm and garden team have just planted almost a thousand plants on the farm to create a new hedge.
It has long been a policy of Biodynamic husbandry to keep cattle with horns. As well as the aesthetic value, the horns have an important function in the life of the cow.
Your choice to shop directly with your local farms is more important than you may realise.
Approaching the halfway mark in my 2-year placement here at Old Plaw Hatch Farm, the coming of the shorter days has allowed me to reflect on what has been one hell of a ride this past year.
Growing vegetables in a political climate that has very little understanding of how food actually gets from the producer to anyone’s kitchen table (let alone the unpredictability of that same climate) means we are very grateful to the crops that have been successes, and we move on quickly from those that were or are, to put it bluntly, failures. Let me briefly talk you through our growing year so far…
Recently we’ve seen a real surge in new customers and have also noticed that existing customers are coming much more frequently and seem to be doing the majority of their food shopping with us. These changes are rarely down to one thing, and I believe at the moment there are several reasons.
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.
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.
There is a moment at the beginning of the year, about this time, when despite the weather, the grey, the cold, the wet and the mud, when us gardeners start to feel into the future. Impossible you may say, and I would entirely agree, and yet every year I feel it.
So, lets call it an awakening.
Read MoreShop Manager, Jenny Thornhill, explains how the staff at Plaw Hatch have risen to the challenge of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read MoreFarmer and Shepherd, Gala Bailey-Barker, reflects on a successful lambing and all the factors that helped bring it together.
Read MoreLambing is about to begin! Gala Bailey-Barker, farmer and shepherd, gives her update on the upcoming excitement and how our farm team are progressing with the change in season.
Read MoreOur garden manager, Nir Halfon, hails the change in season and what it means for the abundance of vegetables and salads growing on the farm.
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