Farming In The Field Education

Farming In The Field Education One to one /work experience for active assisted needs individuals. Grow your own flowers, fruit & veg

Johnny and Keiran our pet donkeys are team members to facilitate eye contact with wheelchair users. Our aim is train them with your help from all our visits to drive a cart hopefully with wheelchair access.

I wish you all the best in life, Liam.Having worked with Liam on a weekly basis for nearly three years it is time for hi...
23/03/2026

I wish you all the best in life, Liam.

Having worked with Liam on a weekly basis for nearly three years it is time for him to take forward so many of his achievements, such as:
- Receiving a letter from the Lieutenant of Kincardineshire praising his achievements within our Farming in the Field Education team, resulting in myself (representing all of my students) being invited to the King's Garden Party on the 30th of June.
-Training Johnny and Kieran to each pull their cart and to be ridden by our family members.
- Naming each of our nine lambs to be identified by their face markings with consideration for Craig to attempt to call their names.
- Sharing the decision to put Pinky down as she was suffering from a leg injury.
- Enabling Brea to settle into her new home and take responsibility of caring, training and exercising her and Max.
- Gardening design, renovation and creation.
- Receiving the Novice Award from the Luthermuir Flower Show as part of our Grow Your Own and Farming in the Field Education teams effort of entering our fruit, vegetables and Craig's homemade wellie boot rack.
- Life skills of budgeting, shopping, cooking including Christmas lunch for six, baking so many birthday cakes for us all and meal prepping.
- Social skills of participating on a weekly basis as a member of our Grow Your Own group, working within the team of Farming in the Field Education and lately shopping weekly in our local Scotmid store.
When one door closes another door opens so let it be an adventurous one as you are more than ready for the challenge !

Getting jobs done on the farm so we are ready to learn lambing from Aileen Donald shortly.
20/03/2026

Getting jobs done on the farm so we are ready to learn lambing from Aileen Donald shortly.

Craig was thoroughly entertained by our nine hoggs (young female sheep) trying to eat Dotty's pellets and Johnny and Kie...
13/02/2026

Craig was thoroughly entertained by our nine hoggs (young female sheep) trying to eat Dotty's pellets and Johnny and Kieran's hay from their nets instead of their own !

Thank you very much to Liam Anson and his mum and dad for very kindly asking at Liam's grans funeral for donations to be...
22/01/2026

Thank you very much to Liam Anson and his mum and dad for very kindly asking at Liam's grans funeral for donations to be made to the ward that cared for her as well as to Farming in the Field Education.
Liam has also generously donated his games for all of us to enjoy playing when we are sheltering in from the weather or needing to rest.
He has a tough job of teaching me to play chess ! He beats me at all the other board games that is not difficult.

Our gimmers, donkeys and pig are all appreciating the hard graft that my work experience students do to care for them al...
18/11/2025

Our gimmers, donkeys and pig are all appreciating the hard graft that my work experience students do to care for them all year round, everyday.

Liam Anson day trip to Upper Dysart Farm with feeding chickens, pigs, alpacas, goats and sheep. His favourites were the ...
12/11/2025

Liam Anson day trip to Upper Dysart Farm with feeding chickens, pigs, alpacas, goats and sheep. His favourites were the miniature donkeys.
He kindly treated me to lunch at Charleton Fruit Farm where I enjoyed pulled pork and bean pie with chips and coleslaw that was very tasty.
Thank you Liam, we had a great day out.

A day out for Craig to the Scottish 61st Ploughing Competition today with decoupage and eating his eve's pudding that he...
24/10/2025

A day out for Craig to the Scottish 61st Ploughing Competition today with decoupage and eating his eve's pudding that he made to take home.

Craig cracking on to get all our outdoor jobs finished before the rain predicted for Sunday.
17/10/2025

Craig cracking on to get all our outdoor jobs finished before the rain predicted for Sunday.

Glorious day for Liam to crack on !
15/10/2025

Glorious day for Liam to crack on !

Dotty coming to see what Liam is up to in her field with picking sloes from our hedgerow that provides a habitat for so ...
08/10/2025

Dotty coming to see what Liam is up to in her field with picking sloes from our hedgerow that provides a habitat for so much wildlife with a dawn chorus from the birds each day.

Liam sorting Honesty and Marigold seeds for our Grow Your Own members to use. We will use some after placing them in the...
24/09/2025

Liam sorting Honesty and Marigold seeds for our Grow Your Own members to use.
We will use some after placing them in the freezer for 48 hours to resemble winter to spring and then soak them for 24 hours to speed up their germination. Sprinkling them onto our warm soil before rainfall in our farm yard and grass bank at our road end should produce some Honesty flowers with seeds in two years and Marigold flowers with seeds each year. Honesty and Marigold flowers self seed to produce more of their flowers that naturalise in grass and rough ground.
This propagation is an example of how you can produce lots of colourful flowers in years to come from a handful of your own collected flower seeds.
Mary has taught us, "how to grow your own garden" without spending money only investing your energy and time whilst learning new skills so keep watching !

Address

Burn Of Balmakelly Farm
Laurencekirk
AB301UQ

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

Telephone

+447708438445

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