News From The Farm

Crops in general are growing as they should as it has been so mild and will continue to do so unless we get much colder weather. Planning for next years crops and rotations take place on rainy days.

The potato harvest is now completed, so we are settling into the winter routine of grading them out of the store to ensure a good supply for the Farm Shop over the winter months.

Our potatoes and onions are now up and safely in store. It has been an excellent growing season for us so a good crop was harvested.

We have Hispi, Summer, White, Red and Savoy cabbages, and cauliflowers available in the Farm Shop at the moment.

The Pick Your Own remains open with our new growing systems. The fruit has been fabulous this year. We anticipate it staying open until mid August.

Bellis’ strawberries are ready and available in the Farm Shop and from Pick Your Own . We also have gooseberries available to pick with raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants ready soon.

The first of our strawberries should be ready early this month and will be available to buy from the Farm Shop.

Our homegrown delicious asparagus is ready and available in the Farm Shop now, it was a little late this year due to the colder weather at night.

Plant growth is about right for the time of year. Although Homegrown produce availability is low as we await our main growing season.

We have been busy planting our 10,000 mixed hedge plants stretching 2.5 kilometres around our fields, with the help of local business Bodfari Environmental.

We are just finishing off planting 10,000 native British hedge plants around many of our fields on the farm, all the seeds collected and germinated in the U.K.

We hope you enjoy our homegrown vegetables with your festive dinner and we wish you all a very ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’ from the Farm Team.

The potato harvest is now completed, so we are settling into the winter routine of grading them out of the store to ensure a good supply for the Farm Shop over the winter months.

Our potatoes and onions are now up and safely in store. It has been a good growing season for us so a good crop was harvested.

We have Hispi, Summer, White, Red and Savoy cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers available in the Farm Shop at the moment. We hope to have new season Marfona potatoes this month too.

Our homegrown fruit has just about come to an end now. The picking team will now prune raspberries and have a general tidy up.

Another year when our strawberries were ready earlier than normal. All the lovely lockdown sunshine helped!

Hot Hot Hot! The hottest Spring on record and don’t we know it! Irrigation has already started on some of our new plants, they need so much water when they are first planted out. Hopefully there will be some rain soon.

If it ever stops raining and once we can get back on the land we will be able to make a start planting carrots, cauliflowers, cabbage and possibly even potatoes this month.

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

Our own grown holly will soon be available in the Garden Centre but it will be a race against time to pick it before the birds eat all the berries.

The potato harvest is now completed, so we are settling into the winter routine of grading them out of the store to ensure a good supply for the Farm Shop over the winter months.

Our potatoes and onions are now up and safely in store. It has been a good growing season for us so a good crop was harvested.

Onions are currently drying and will be placed in the store ready for sale soon.

The new season’s potato harvest is just about to get underway with the tops ready to be burnt off and the crops harvested in early September.