News From The Farm

The lambs have started to arrive on our tenanted fields but the Lapwings have only just appeared over at Esp Hill Farm. They are a little late for this time of year.

Purple sprouting broccoli should be available soon and another month or so our delicious asparagus will be ready!

All the pruning of the fruit trees and plants has now finished and winter ploughing is completed.

Most of December is devoted to getting the extra stock sorted for the Christmas demand. We have plenty of our homegrown cabbages at the moment but this will change as soon as we have any significant frosts. We continue to grade more potatoes and onions and have plenty in storage to last the winter.

Pumpkins are already being harvested and everything is being prepared on the fields for the opening of our PYO Pumpkins, Spooky Maize Maze and Sharland’s Family Fun Fair (20/10/18).

We have all varieties of cabbage, cauliflowers and broccoli available in the Farm Shop at the moment and there should be a consistent supply available. There may be a short gap on some varieties as we wait for them to be ready to harvest.

The new seasons potato harvest is just about to get underway with Marfona ready first, followed in the early autumn by Picasso. The onion crop will be ready to harvest by the end of the month and then will be left to dry.

The first of our strawberries should be ready early this month and will be available to buy from the Farm Shop. Due to all the lovely sunshine in May we may be opening the Pick Your Own slightly earlier this year.

After a much later start than normal our homegrown delicious asparagus is ready and available in the Farm Shop. We also have rhubarb, purple sprouting broccoli and cauliflower.

Spring is supposed to be here now! We still appear to be in the middle of Winter. The Lapwings have only just appeared over at Esp Hill Farm, they too are late for the time of year. Plant growth is very behind due to the recent cold and extremely wet weather we have been having.