Updates

  • Open Farm Sunday

    Fordhall Farm is joining in with national Open Farm Sunday on June 1st 11am-4pm. We will be throwing open the farm gates and inviting everbody to see farm life as it really is. The Farm Trail and Farm Shop will…

  • Update on the Farm Trail Appeal

    As mentioned on the blog a few days ago, we are running an appeal to raise funds to help the Farm Trail here at Fordhall Farm. We are pleased to say that it is going really well and we are…

  • Forest Schools Project

    We are delighted to report that we have been awarded £7,200 by the Forestry Commission for the development of a Forest School site in Castle Hill Wood at Fordhall Farm. Thank you Forestry Commission! This grant will also part-fund the…

  • The Farm Trail Appeal

    By now many of you will have recieved your letter by now, or maybe seen our appeal on our website……Anyway…We need your help!The Farm trail is currently in a very sorry state and we desperately need your help to improve…

  • Summer Sun at Fordhall Farm

    As the sun shines everything comes into blossom at the farm. The trees are bright green, the birds are singing and the swallows are all fighting for those spaces in the barn rafters to nest. New this week were four…

  • Working Weekend at Fordhall Farm

    Our next working weekend is fast approaching, so what better way to spend a weekend than helping us to prepare the farm for the approaching summer months and enjoying the hot weather at the same time? Join us on the…

  • Don’t forget our Summer Play!

    Thats right, this summer the story of Fordhall Farm will be told in a fantastically funny play with music. Due to he held outdoors at Fordhall Farm, and Home Farm, Shrewsbury at the end of June and beginning of July,…

  • Farmer Ben’s new butcher

    Ben (Hollins) has launched himself into new territory over the last few weeks. After 18 months of gathering second-hand items from wherever he could lay his hands on them, he now has a complete butchery kit fully assembled on the…

  • GOODBYE BARRY

    Fordhall Farm has bid a fond farewell to Barry the bull, who sadly left us this morning when he went to the market to be sold. Barry has been here since before the campaign so was very special. Watch this…

  • Field Studies Council Invertebrates Course

    Fordhall Farm ran its first invertebrates course last saturday (April 5th) for over 17 budding volunteers. They scanned and disected owl pellets under microscopes and investigated habitats and grassland relationships. I have it on good authority that the day was…