So much new season produce from the farm this week! The Spring weather may be slowing growth generally but our experienced team of farmers Made, Arnold, Jairo and Fransisco have worked miracles to bring lots of crops to perfection. Indoor crops ready for harvest this week include the following: Cima de Rape Tai Sai Tatsoi … Read more
The weather may be a little fresher this weekend but it still looks like pleasant spring sunshine in parts. The gardens here at the farm are looking better and better with wonderful apple blossom bursting out all over. We hope many of you will wrap up a little more tightly and still come to eat … Read more
What a delight to see so many of our regular customers in the gardens last weekend! We were very happy to be open for full service again and happy that so many of you chose to come and join us in celebrating the easing of winter restrictions. The weather appears to be set fair again this … Read more
At last we are able to open the restaurant! From 10am tomorrow morning we will be open for service. The team is excited, the preparations are made, the flower displays for the tables are ready (see above), the croissants are rising. We look forward to welcoming you whether for coffee and a croissant in the morning … Read more
After what feels like a very long Winter, we are at last about to re-open the restaurant. Of course, we will only be able to offer outside tables so numbers are limited and you may need to wrap up warm but we are very excited to be able to cook for you all again from … Read more
The long Easter weekend is coming and although the weather will not be as summery come the weekend, there is a real optimism that things really are going to open up again after our long winter! Here at the farm, we are delighted that the Avian Flu restrictions on outdoor poultry have at last … Read more
More and more wonderful tulips this week. The greenhouse flowers are now at their peak with fiery and voluptuous colours complementing the earlier pastels. Flowers will be available as single stems for you to mix and match or as bunches in a range of sizes. Such a tonic to lift the spirits and with … Read more
The very first of our tulips were picked last weekend – and the displays will grow over the coming weeks as the thousands of autumn planted bulbs come to the fore. Those of you who have been visiting the farm have been able to watch the shoots grow over the last months and at last … Read more
Lots of delicious pork this week from our two over-wintered pigs. Gloucester Old Spot/Oxford and Sandy crosses, these were big pigs – what used to be called bacon pigs rather than porkers. Covered in a good layer of fat and well-marbled throughout, the meat is delicious – a long way from supermarket pork in any … Read more
Last weekend’s warmth and sunshine may have departed but there is still more than a hint of Spring in the air. We have more flowers this weekend with Anemones and wonderfully-scented Grape Hyacinth by the bunch. The Iris Reticulata are making a great display of iridescent blue as the first potted bulbs to flower but … Read more