Category: Newsletter

AROUND THE FARM

The summer may have ended for the school year, but for Farmers across the country, we are not even half way through! The awful winter & early spring weather forced the beginning of harvest …

AROUND THE FARM

In the first few weeks of July we have had two set of piglets born, litters of 7 & 6, smaller than our winter litters but welcome none the less. We shall not …

AROUND THE FARM

Finally we are beginning to enjoy a little more warm weather as summer and the long school holidays approach us. All of this years new born calves, are now out on the fresh pastures …

AROUND THE FARM

Despite the continuing unseasonably cold & wet weather, the spring season on the farm is very apparent– Calving has now finished at Foxholes, & following half term, our babies will be set out …

AROUND THE FARM

Spring has finally arrived! At last our new calves are enjoying the fresh spring pasture, out in the fields with their mothers & our crops are beginning to catch up in the warmer weather. Our …

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The unseasonably bitter weather, yet still showing little sign of improvement, continues to set crops & animals back on the farm. Our crops, as with most springtime plants & grass, requires a reasonably constant, …

AROUND THE FARM

Already the first calves of 2013 have started being born inside our courtyard on the farm here at Foxholes. Alongside our new year’s calves, our piglets have now been weaned from their mothers. …

AROUND THE FARM

It’s a boy!! Our first calf of 2014 has been born, spring is on its way!

Although we should be fertilizing the fields and fencing around the grass fields, this is impossible at the moment …

AROUND THE FARM

Wow! January certainly threw an icy blast at us this year. Following an incredibly damp end of year, preventing almost any ‘field work’ being undertaken, the first chilly week of January, did allow …

2013 already appears to be an improvement on last year having said our farewells to 2012 and its horrendous weather.

On and around the farm, the excessive rainfall of December has yet to drain away and …