Pick up a paper this Saturday and you will see (hopefully) a feature on community-owned enterprises, with Fordhall Farm being one of them! It is great to see that Social Entperprise and community ownership principles are being spread across the…
Author: Charlotte Hollins
The Adventures of George
Baaah! Me again!It’s been so busy at Fordhall at the moment – it doesn’t seem to have stopped after the Summer Fair! Phew! And guess what…Fordhall have even more exciting things coming up on the Summer that I want to…
Permaculture Introduction Course THIS WEEKEND!
We have a few places left on our fantastic and topical Permaculture course this weekend. Whether your interest is gardening, farming, planning, building homes, community work, economic regeneration, business or just green issues in general, the application of Permaculture principles…
Fordhall’s Sunny Success!
Everyone was busy at Fordhall Farm last weekend with our Summer Fair on the Sunday and our hard work certainly paid off as we had such a fantastic day….and the sun shone! We had over 2,000 people attend throughout the…
Fordhall prepares for the Summer Fair
All this week Fordhall Farm is busy preparing for it’s biggest event of the year!Our famous Summer Fair takes place this weekend and this years event will not disappoint. All day from 11am -4pm, we are chocoblock with so many…
Charlotte helped to Launch Morgan Awards 2009
After winning the Morgan Foundation Awards in the ‘Against All Odds’ category in 2008, Charlotte was asked to help launch the 2009 round. Founded by Steve Morgan, founder of Redrow Development and Chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, the foundation aims…
The Adventures of George Part Five
Baaah! What a great week – it’s been so nice and warm so far this week that I am so energetic, I just had to help out and what an exciting week.Ben is giving the farm shop a revamp and…
The Adventures of George Part Four
Hi there, George here again. Sorry I missed the blog last week, but after all the rain over the weekend and all the work that got done at the working weekend – I felt like my hooves needed a rest.…
Recovering from a damp but fantastic working weekend at Fordhall Farm…..
After a fantastic (but wet!) volunteer weekend at Fordhall Farm everyone is now dry and happy after a really hardworking few days. Although the rain didn’t stop all weekend, so many fantastic jobs got started and completed including lots of…
The Adventures of George …Part Three….Preparing for the Working Weekend
…baah! As most of you know this weekend is the Fordhall Farm Working Weekend and as we have got people attending from all over the country I thought I better make an early start. So today I started collecting some…