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Farming In The Field Education

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Farming In The Field Education

Aim to achieve possible voluntary or employment in argriculture, animal or plant care.

One to one work experience tailored specifically for the age, abilities and interests for active assisted needs individuals who have a genuine interest in farming. 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.

14/08/2026

What a job list for Craig to do in the heat !
- Moving his baas with the help of Barry to move them in and our gates in our trailer.
- Power washing our trailer and his mum.
- Feeding himself, Max, Brea and Dotty our peas, pea pods and pea plants.
- Putting ointment onto Johnny's insect bites, training both our donkeys with their saddles on to be ridden by our family and poo picking.
- Taking Max and Brea to Marykirk river to throw their ball into the edge of the river for them to exercise but remain cool.
- Putting up our gates to protect our ends of polytunnels from our baas and cleaning their water trough.
- Cutting all the stems off our tomatoes as they are showing signs of blight following cutting down our potato stems showing the same previously.
- Feeding our tomatoes and figs.
Picking our apples, tomatoes and courgettes for Craig's and our families.

31/07/2026

Thank you to the Kincardineshire Lieutenancy who invited me to attend the King's Garden Party at Holyrood on the 30th June to represent my team and who wrote a letter to each of my students.
Craig attended as a pupil of Carronhill School who I was business partners with from 2019 until 2022 providing weekly class visits. He started his weekly work experience in 2023 due to his keen interest in farming.
With his highly infectious and outgoing approach to life, he has melted many farmer's hearts along with his hard work and enthusiasm to learn what it takes to become a farmer or a shepherd.
He was presented with a shepherd's crook with his name carved on the handle, such a special gift that he and his family very much appreciated.
With his fellow students making a huge impression on the local community, we have gained mentorship from Stuart and Aileen Donald, Ian Grant and his family and Alistair Thow. Through caring for their sheep, learning to lamb, helping them during their lambing, clipping and preparing their lambs for the market. We now look forward to starting our own flock together.

24/07/2026

Productive day for Craig.
Picking peas and broad beans.
Feeding, trimming and training tomatoes.
Pulling onions.
Picking broccoli, kale, lettuce, rocket and pak choi.
Grooming and training Kieran and Johnny.
Feeding and checkimg the health of Dotty and the gimmers.
Walking Brea and Max as a new adventure.
Trimming and training our fruit trees.
Picking our first apple before naughty Max eats it !

17/07/2026

Thank you to the Kincardineshire Lieutenancy who invited me to attend the King's Garden Party at Holyrood on the 30th June to represent my team and who wrote a letter to each of my students.
Liam achieved so much during his weekly work experience from July 2024 until March 2026.
He cared for and trained our donkeys, Johnny and Kieran, to be ridden by our family and to pull their own cart.
During learning to be a sheep farmer, he selected names beginning with A for each lamb so Craig could try to attempt to verbalise their shortened names via their facial markings.
He bonded with our student's dog, Brea, through spending a lot of his time petting, training and exercising her and her step brother Max.
He made a tough decision, shared with me, to put down our pig, Pinky, to prevent her from further suffering from her injured leg that demonstrated him being brave and accepting what needed to be done.
I wish you, Liam, all the best in the future in achieving further happiness and gaining even more independence.

08/07/2026

All in a day's work for Craig helping my nephew, Ian Grant, and his family, to shear their ewes and tups yesterday.

03/07/2026

Thank you to the Kincardineshire Lieutenancy who invited me to attend the King's Garden Party at Holyrood on the 30th June to represent my team and who wrote a letter to each of my students.
One of my students undertook his work experience from April 2024 until May 2026 having demonstrated a keen agricultural interest especially in livestock and agricultural machinery. He helped handling of Aberdeen Angus cows and bulls along with weighing and selecting lambs that were sold at the mart.
Through visits to local tractor garages, he learnt about engineering and mechanics as well as all the parts needed in the storeroom.
He met the local Agricultural Apprenticeship leader from Ringlink and gained an insight of what he needs to do to apply for an apprenticeship in the future.

26/06/2026

Ducking between the showers is all in a days work for Craig today.
Dotty making sure that Craig is thoroughly cleaning her water trough.
Removing dockens and thistles before they seed in our rhubarb.
Still brushing out lots of hair from Johnny and Kieran.
Checking that the thistles, nettles and dockens are dying in our grass fields currently not being grazed.
Adventures at Marykirk river with Brea and Max.
Noting the first pods on our peas.
Transplanting our courgettes to larger space in our polytunnel.
Weeding our cabbages.

22/06/2026

Harvey and I learnt all about bee keeping today ...
Up to 50, 000 bees can live in a hive.
There is only one queen bee who can lay up to 2000 eggs a day.
Approximately 95% of bees are workers as the females.
Approximately 5% of bees are drones as males who breed with other queen bees then die.
A worker can carry water or pollen or nectar back to the hive to make honey.
The older the honey the smoother it is to taste.
Harvey was also busy moving our gimmers from being with Johnny and Kieran to join Dotty, training our tomatoes and fruit trees.

19/06/2026

Outdoor jobs were entertaining today as Johnny herded our nine gimmers in their field when they first shared their grazing. Meanwhile, Barry struggled to move Dotty to her new grazing for laughing at Johnny as Craig said, "oh dear !".
Inside our fruit polytunnels, despite the rain, Craig cut the grass, trimmed our willow stakes, cut the wires that secured them to our post and wire support and handed the strings that were used to fan train our fruit trees.
Craig now knows where our cherry trees are as he loved tasting them as well as noting our first pea flowers outside.

05/06/2026

Productive day for Craig.
Strawing strawberries, picking strawberries and sampling them to make sure they were tasty to take home.
Brushing lots of mud, hair from Johnny and Kieran for them to roll in the mud again !
Putting on their harness and training Johnny and Kieran around their cart.
Putting in posts and fence wire to support two crops of peas.
Planting more lettuces and reapplying slug pellets as they ate a lot of our plants three weeks ago.
Gathering our gimmers onto our float, watching us apply blow strike prevention pour on and moving them to eat the excess grass in our donkeys field to prevent possible laminitis affecting our donkeys.
All in a days work with Craig.

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

Website

https://farminginthefieldeducation.co.uk/

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