Bruno, our Middle White boar pig moved house last week. He’s having a rest up on the yard, to give Curly some space before her piglets arrive this month!
Our honey bees busy feeding on a huge globe artichoke flower on the youth plots.
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We borrowed this great bit of machinery and trained up our Horticulture Apprentice who got to work tackling the orchard! We let the grass grow long in Spring to provide food and shelter for wildlife, then cut it back ready for the apple harvest from late Summer.
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Beautiful Red Admiral butterfly basking on a wall in the Farm this morning.
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It’s all change in the pig fields! We have two Berkshire sows from Stepney City Farm staying with our Middle White boar. We’re hoping they’ll both get ‘in pig’ and we’ll then send one sow back to Stepney and will keep the other. Fingers crossed for piglets in the Autumn!
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The daily sheep run! This was taken not long after the sheep had been sheared, as they ran from the field to their yard for dinner.
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We have some VERY exciting new arrivals! Snowy and Fidget arrived today from the Donkey Sanctuary. It’s great to have donkeys back on the Farm again!
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Huge thanks to everyone who supported our Spring Fair last Saturday! We had a fantastic day welcoming so many people, celebrating the annual sheep shearing and raising over £2,000 to help keep the Farm running.
This was all possible thanks to our dedicated staff and volunteer team who worked really hard to put the event on - you’re all amazing, thank you!
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The Great Sheep Run! Today our ten ewes are getting their annual haircut. Visit us to watch them for free, and support our Spring Fair!
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Carrot treats for our rabbits. These are Rex rabbits and have short, thick, velvety soft fur.
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Our flock racing to the sheep pen in slow-motion. Join us on Saturday 7th May for our Spring Fair and watch our ewes getting their annual haircut - loosing their woolly coats in time for Summer!
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Takeaway breakfast! The Guinea pigs love their veggie treats.
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We took on these little lambs from another farm, they’re about three weeks old now and growing quickly. If you were lucky enough to buy lamb bottle-feeding tickets you’ll be meeting them this week! More slots will be added on Friday morning for the following week.
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Fancy growing your own herbs, vegetables or fruits? Or looking for some colour to brighten up your window box?
We have a great selection of plants in our mini garden centre outside the farm shop, all grown from seed in peat free compost by our community groups.
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The little ducklings are growing fast! They’ve been outside on the grass this week, enjoying the warmer weather.
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Our flock is growing! We have ten ewes and seven lambs now. They love racing back to their barn and yard pen for dinner every evening. We also have four more little bottle-fed lambs that are living in the barn until they’re big enough to join the flock.
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Our new little piglets are very inquisitive. They all had to come over and check out their water being filled up!
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Dinner time for the sheep, all lined up munching on their hay in the barn. If you watch to the end you’ll also see our youngest lamb, who is just four days old!
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Our little grey Ferguson tractor was on the move! We relocated it from the field to shelter through the recent stormy weather.
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This morning we’ve welcomed these beautiful little Oxford Sandy & Black weaners to the Farm. Huge thanks to @barleylandsfarmpark who have given them to us! They’re settling in really well, if you’re visiting they’re out on the yard next to our chickens.
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Our ducklings are growing quickly! We’ve loved introducing them to visitors at our ‘Meet the small animals’ sessions.
These sessions are held in the yard from 2:30-3pm, Monday-Friday this week and next. £1 per child.
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The frog activity in the in the wildlife area has been continuing this week! In this great video taken by one of our wonderful volunteers you can see lots of frog spawn!
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Bisto the farm cat biding his time while he waits for a Livestock Volunteer to open the feed barn where he can go on a mouse hunt 🐁
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Jammy & Dodger chilling in the sunshine this morning while one of our Livestock Volunteers mucked out their living quarters!
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Breakfast time for the cows!
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The storm has been howling across the Farm, but so far there’s been minimal damage. The animals haven’t been bothered at all! Here are our cows happily tucking into their dinner as normal.
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Monday morning Christmas tree munching! The goats are still steadily working there way through the tree pile we have here and enjoy a fresh tree each week.
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New Leaf students kept warm working in the sunny greenhouse yesterday. They’ve been busy sieving the rotted wood chip, that we received last year from tree surgeons, which we’ll add as a component in our compost.
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We have a small pile of Christmas trees that the goats are slowly munching through! They’ll eat the needles and strip the bark, then we’ll chop up the remaining wood and dry it out to use as fuel in our wood oven.
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Livestock volunteers keep our pony entertained and exercised along the Thames path!
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