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…

…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…

By now many of you will have received your letter, or maybe seen the appeal on our website….. Anyway… We need your help to save the Fordhall Community Land Initiatives most valuable capital asset….The Farmhouse Roof!The roof is in urgent…

After all the excitement of my first blog last week I thought I had better write the world another………This week (after the recovery of my words being published on the World Wide Web) I decided to take it easy and…

Welcome to our new feature….The adventures of George!George is our resident Cade lamb at Fordhall Farm (Cade= left by it’s mother at birth and had to be bottle fed.) He is often up to no good but also likes to…

Last Saturday (2nd May) Fordhall Farm hosted a Dawn Chorus Walk as part of International Dawn Chorus Day run by the Wildlife Trusts. The walk was guided by local bird twitcher and volunteer Paul Rutter and was very well attended.…

Fordhall hosted yet another great weekend this weekend. Not only was it the weekend of our third ever AGM but we also held a very successful Farmers’ Market on the Sunday at the farm and guess what…the weather was great.…

Here at Fordhall Farm we are getting very excited about our Farmers’ Market on Sunday as we have some fantastic local produce on offer. Plus the weather is getting a lot warmer and if it continues like this we are…

FANTASTIC NEWS. The BBC Natural World programme about Peak Oil and the future of our farming industry will be repeated this Saturday at 5.30pm on BBC2. If you missed it first time round, this is a great programme and worth…

Charlotte and Ben were recently finalists in the Daily Mail’s ‘Make Your Mark’ awards for their enterprising initiative in creating the Fordhall Community Land Initiative in 2006. The winners of the 2009 Make Your Mark Enterprising Young Brits Awards were…