The first ever Annual General Meeting for the Fordhall Community Land Initiative based at Fordhall Farm in North Shropshire has been hailed an overwhelming success. After being saved from development and placed into community ownership last July through the sale…
As the weekend’s activities loom, volunteers are pulling together and helping with preparations for the events. Fordhall Community Land Initiaitive’s first every AGM is on Saturday March 31st at The Grove School, Market Drayton, 10am-12. Following this is an exciting…
Fordhall is ringing with the noise of baa’s from every angle. With around 90 lambs so far there is plenty of skipping and jumping going on, and thats just the volunteers. Modelled by Farmer Ben and ‘Courier’ Dave is the…
After the success of last year, we are holding another 2 week Permaculture Design course at Fordhall Farm. It will run from April 28th until May 12th, and I can assure you they are great fun. You will learn the…
Written by Tanya and Laura This weekend we’ve had a fantastic time visiting Fordhall Farm to see all the work that’s going on the Farm and to hear about how it all started. We’re hoping to use some of the…
Such as great weekend! Over 50 volunteers descended on Fordhall Farm over the weekend to put thier hands to numerous activities including clearing out old farm buildings, painting and planting hedgerows. Also, there was more hedge laying training which was…
Fordhall House Last week, like most of the country, Fordhall was covered in snow for two days and looked perfect. Within a matter of hours the snow had fallen thickly and the fields were totally white. Our first 25 lambs…
Keep your eyes peeled as Charlotte and Ben Hollins flash onto our screens tomorrow lunch time. Rob from the BBC 2 programme ‘Working Lunch’ visited Fordhall last week and the interview with Charlotte and Ben will be shown on Tuesday’s…
Sunday 14th introduced ten new volunteers to the specialised skill of hedge laying. They were all guided by our long-standing volunteer Andrew who used his knowledge and expertise to teach the enthusiastic volunteers. Two other volunteers who had previously attended…
2006 has been an amazing year at Fordhall and the still of telephones and emails over christmas enabled us to really take in the achievements of the year. Both Ben and I agree that the Christmas of 2006 has been…
