Springbottom Farm, Wilsford

05/09/2026

When you are tracking the farmer and wonder if he will be home for dinner?

Let’s just hope that the tracking app is wrong and he is most certainly not cycling 🚴 up and down ‘Ron’s’ field, but is in fact was cultivating with the tractor 🤣🤣.

04/09/2026

September, and wheat drilling can't be far away. To that end, we had 12 tons of this years wheat harvest cleaned ahead of planting 161 acres later this month.
Using farm saved seed can be more economical than buying in seed, and guarantees timely availability.
The quality (we'll not talk of quantity) of the grain this year means that there is no need for a seed dressing, just a clean to remove such chaff and w**d seeds as are present. On that point, it should be noted that the bods doing the cleaning said it was the cleanest wheat they had seen all year, so Bravo ! to Barry for his skill in setting up the (19 year old) combine.

Proverbs 26:11 says it perfectly. We are having a bash at growing Oil Seed R**e again, and have been busy moving some ground ahead of drilling next week. It is a gamble because of the dreaded Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle, but it is a wonderful break crop, a good soil conditioner and quite lucrative if any of it survives. Fingers crossed.

04/09/2026

Ed keeps declaring me for mad!
But I think it’s genius: most times when I go out to feed the pigs I fill the bucket up with sticks. These are well seasoned and make great kindling. As well as saving us from chopping more wood for kindling.
I did it last year and we had many months of sticks to light the fire. Definitely gathering more this year.

03/09/2026

Today we waved the last of our shorthorn x off on his last journey.
We couldn’t make it much easier and less stressful than this. Straight from the field into the collecting pen we build two days ago. A few mouthfuls of cattle cake and straight onto the trailer and off.
Is it too soon to ask for your pre-orders or shall we let the dust settle for a little first?

02/09/2026

The next market we will be attending is Woodford Valley Kitchen Garden Market & Cafe this Saturday 5th September, 9am - 11.30am. This is a lovely local market that we have attended for a number of year now. It always has a great atmosphere.
We will have beef and lamb/ hogget for sale on the day.

Call out to all local Gardeners... if you've excess produce you are very welcome to bring it to Market to sell!

Either post a comment with what you have or contact us at: [email protected]😉

02/09/2026

Let’s clear some things up and I think first of all we start with: We are not butchers! Or even a farm shop.

We are a farm that sells beef, pork and lamb/ hogget or mutton directly and seasonally. We have a rough little ‘shop’ (if you want to call it that) on our farm and do currently 2 markets a month at Woodford Valley Kitchen Garden Market & Cafe and Amesbury Scout Group Market.
You are always welcome to pop to the farm and see what we currently have in. A quick message on 07771876554 would be appreciated to insure that we are in or close by and to save you a wasted journey.

Yes we are ‘old school’. It’s not a click and collect. It’s not a faceless operation. It’s not a trolly dash!
We still do that funny thing where we TALK to our customers. Face to face. Talk about how we do things, how best to prepare the meat 🍖 etc.

The meat we sell is reared by us. These animals have lived in our fields, our woods, our paddocks. Nothing is bought in! No wholesaler, no middleman!
All animals get delivered by us to the abattoir. From there it goes to our butcher for hanging/maturing and then butchery and back to us.

We do not mass produce food. We look after slow growing heritage and rare breeds that just take the time they need to be the best they can be on the chalk down land.

Come on to Springbottom Farm, Wilsford and see for yourself. Support British Farming

02/09/2026

We can hardly believe how far our Duchess cat has come!
From a vicious little horrible cat that we’ll see maybe every few days. Words when we adopted her were: ‘You’ll never tame her! She is a proper feral.’
Now I can hardly go around the farm without my little black shadow popping out from somewhere and giving me her little meow 🐈‍⬛.
Still skittish and we can’t pick her up, but will curl up in my lap.

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

A quick updated list of what we currently have available!

- topside - 1-1.5kg joints
- slow roast joint - 1.7kg
- short rib - 1 kg pack

- beef mince - 500g pack
- diced beef - 500g pack
- braising steak - 500g pack
- shin of beef - 500g pack

- minute steak - 2 per pack
- ranch steak - 2 per pack
- flat iron steak - 2 per pack
- rump steak - 2 per pack

- beef burgers - 4 per pack (gluten free)
- beef sausages - 6 per pack (gluten free)

- ox tongue - whole - free!!

We also still have some lamb:

- lamb cutlets - various size packs
- lamb neck fillet - 500 g pack
- breast of lamb - 500-600g pack
- boneless leg of lamb joint - approx 1kg
- leg of lamb (bone in) - 2.3kg joints
- lamb leg steaks - 2 per pack
- spicy lamb sausages - 6 per pack
- spicy lamb burger - 4 per pack

Order through here or come and see us

Next market we attend will be at the Woodford Valley Kitchen Garden Market & Cafe on Saturday 5th September 9am - 11.30am

29/08/2026

I don’t know how many years we’ve been doing pigs now, but we first met Seb quite a few years ago. At the time he told us he just wanted to make enough to get a tractor 🚜.
Time has flown and what a great lad he is (and of course the whole family!)