Are you dreaming of a green Christmas? Great! Our favourite four legged farm friend, Poppy, shares her top tips for enjoying your most environmentally friendly Christmas yet! Let’s get started – woof! Let’s start with trees, as you folks seem…
Continuing our volunteer stories series, please enjoy Julie’s which was featured in the Spring 2022 edition of the Grazer: Last month I had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Julie and her dog, Noel, (might have slowed up the…
As winter draws in, the cold, damp and shorter days can all be can all be barriers to getting out and about and connecting with others. However, one such way of beating the ‘winter blues’, by connecting with nature and…
The English countryside boasts a whole range of natural delights, and yet the vast majority of it is out of bounds for the general population. According to the Right to Roam campaign, 92% of the countryside and 97% of rivers…
Social Prescribing Day is an annual celebration of social prescribing, recognising the UK wide community groups and projects which have kept us healthy throughout the pandemic and beyond. What is social prescribing? Social prescribing, also sometimes known as community referral,…
Nothing shouts AUTUMN quite like a squash and we seem to be heading into the season of plenty. I love this time of year and in the UK we generally have an abundance of locally produced fruit and vegetables to…
Over the next few weeks in Arthurs Farm Kitchen and the Farm Shop we are celebrating the fabulous Fennel. Chef will be including this multi-functional herb in many of his recipes, so I thought I’d share with you some of…
Holidays give us often much-needed, precious time to switch off, relax, recharge our batteries and spend quality time with loved ones. Spending just a night or a few days in the yurt at Fordhall is a special place to do…
Phew, it’s Friday evening after all the hustle and bustle of a busy long working week. Now I can sit back and forget the huge pile of paperwork I have left in the office and the business meetings and motorway…
Thank you to everybody who has already very generously donated towards our new straw bale bunkhouse. Pictured below are some of the photographs taken over the last few months as our bunkhouse takes shape. Building the straw bale walls. Volunteers…
