All change this week – firstly, the works to convert the shop into tables for the restaurant are pretty much complete. We now have a a beautiful space for 4 or 5 tables with several pieces of work by our Artist in Residence Stacey Gledhill on the walls. These new tables provide a cool, shaded …
Lots of evening events over the next few weeks with our next Sip and Paint evening coming up on 19th July. The last of these relaxed, evening painting sessions sold out and we are already taking lots of bookings for the September event. This upcoming evening has some slots still available and our Artist in …
So mid-summer has come and gone. The sun has arrived – at least for a period! The weather is warm, the flowers are beautiful, the evenings are long and sultry. The next two months are the perfect time to visit the farm and we are putting together an appealing roster of events to make the …
Always a joyous marker of summer when the Artichokes return! So, delicious Globe Artichokes served with Hollandaise together with our own Strawberries in a Pavlova. If we’re lucky, we may also have some belated heat to help celebrate Mid-Summer! Lots of fresh pork on the menu again this week as 2 of our Saddlebacks had …
To celebrate the Bank Holiday weekend, and some more settled weather, we are re-launching our Aperitivo Hour this weekend. Both tomorrow and Saturday, we will be serving cocktails and fizz in the early evening as, we hope, the light of the westering sun is filtering through the voluptuous greens of the cottage garden outside the library. …
Many different people have contributed to the layout and feel of the gardens at Worton. Part of my own contribution is to add plants that I have loved at places I have lived in previously. One such is the Iris which grew in abundance in the poor gravelly soil at the foot of house and …
So lots of changes for the next few weeks as I have been back under the knife in Headington and will be largely out of action till mid June. In the interim we have Made and my daughter Bea stepping forward to do the day time cooking so the menu will carry on as normal …
Last call for our monthly Supper Club – Weeds from the Yard – to be held this Friday evening. An intriguing menu with every course featuring weeds or those critters in the garden that eat the weeds. Hosted by our resident Mad Professor and my brother, Charles, we aim to show that much that grows …
So all change at the farm this week. While the last month has seen some of the older pigs from last year “leaving”, this week the larger of our Saddleback sows has started nesting gone into labour. The Cycle of Life never stops turning and, although the labour seems painfully long, we hope to have …
It’s one off those weekends! Four of the Saddlebacks had a day trip this week and we have lots of pork in store and on the menu. Tuscan fennel sausages aplenty – we made some 50 kilos of fresh sausage yesterday and those who have tasted them suggest these might be the best yet! Also …
