What is pasture-fed and why is it important? The organisation Pasture for Life, puts it simply: “Grazing animals on 100% pasture brings positive impacts for biodiversity and carbon, human health and wellbeing, and animal health and welfare”. Where is all…

Long time volunteer and shareholder Ruth King shares with us a recent stay in the yurts on the farm… Glamping. It conjures up a certain image, doesn’t it? Something remote and ‘off-grid’, perhaps with all the basics with a bit…

For National Pastry Day, why not try this tasty galette recipe? A favourite of chef Richard! Ingredients – serves 8 For the pastry 80g hazelnuts, roughly chopped 120g spelt flour 130g plain white flour, plus extra for dusting 130g cold butter, cubed 1 egg, beaten…

The season is certainly festive as we enter the final month of 2023. In fact, at Fordhall Farm, we recently hosted our first festive craft fayre with an array of local crafters, and Farm Shop Christmas orders are already growing…

What does the future of Fordhall look like? Following on from our member survey at the start of 2023, our Board have been busy reviewing Fordhall’s long-term strategy. We are keen to ensure that the work we do now contributes…

There are definite tell-tale signs winter is on its way to the farm – an early morning frost over the grass, and mist illuminated by the autumnal sunrises hanging over the fields. The livestock, however, seem to remain undeterred by…

In the last Grazer, we shared Charlotte and Ben’s journey into silvopasture, which is the practice of integrating trees into the livestock farming system in a mutually beneficial way. For us, this could mean they act as ‘living barns’ during…

As it is National Baking Week, we wanted to share a delicious recipe you can try yourself at home! Of course, as the autumn and winter months are upon us, it had to be one which creates a hearty and…

Tree planting isn’t a new practise at Fordhall – in fact it has been going for many years – but in recent months the benefits of producing a silvopasture project have very much come to the forefront. So much so,…

While walking along the River Tern on Tuesday 4th March 2014, I was elated to experience the all too rare sighting of an otter swimming from the right hand bank towards me and the base of a tree growing at…