WOW! Charlotte and Ben and the Fordhall Community Land Initiative have been shortlised for the Daily Mail’s Enterprising Young Brits Awards 2009 through the Make Your Mark campaign. Make Your Mark is the campaign to give people in the UK…
Yes spring has sprung when new baby lambs can be seen around the farm and so far Ben is very happy with the way things are progressing. There have been no real problems and lots of twins have been appearing…
Yet again Fordhall has held a successful working weekend with people from as far afield as Somerset coming along and taking part. Lots got finished, including fences, gates and yurt cleaning! All volunteers left happy, with a sense of achievement…
WOW! We have had a fantastic response from the BBC programme shown last friday called ‘Farm for the Future’ featuring Fordhall Farm. It was filmed as part of the Natural World series on BBC 2 and attracted over 2.2 million…
Fordhall Farm is featured as part of a BBC documentary this Friday on the future of Farming. With oil prices being so fluid and the vast majority of our farms being so dependant on it as a core resource, the…
Wondering what to do with the children over half term? Well, wonder no more. Here at Fordhall Farm we are utilising our newly developed Forest School site for family use. From Mon to Fri next week we will be running…
Farm for the Future – Friday 20th February BBC 2 8pm. Rebecca Hosking finds out how she can make her families wildlife friendly farm in Devon, a low energy farm for the future and discovers that nature holds the key.…
Shropshire was hit by the snow quite heavily last night, but the life of a farmer goes on. We thought we would share some lovely pictures of Fordhall Farm in the snow, something that we haven’t seen for some years.…
Perfectly timed with the airing of Jamie Oliver’s programe – “Jamie Saves our Bacon” promoting free range pork production – is the birth of 9 healthy Gloucester Old Spot pigs at Fordhall Farm in Shropshire. Pictured above with mum in…
Next week is national Farmhouse Breakfast week 2009 which looks to increase awarenesss of the most important meal of the day – Breakfast! The campaign aims to encourages people nto start the day with a healthy nutritional breakfast as part…
