NEWSLETTERS
Our archive of newsletters from 2010 is below. Just click on the date to download a pdf of the newsletter you’d like to read. Please allow a moment or two for the document to open. One of these days we may have time to produce new ones!
ISSUE
WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO
Lockdown, climate change, meadow restoration, getting published, feral farm cats, the realities of supply and demand, pigs for sale!
Celebrating the turn of the seasons, lambskins lambskins lambskins, What’s a mule, HighGround, hogget, new websites
Playing catch-up, experimental pork, calving 2017, lambing 2017, Countryside Stewardship delivering results, lamb box time
Beautiful autumn, experimental piglets, Cumbrian Herdwicks, Debbie’s Diary, Countryside Stewardship, tupping time and fungi
Summer tales, no-weaning approach, Rainbow Warrior, geese meet cows, grass snakes on the move, Countryside Stewardship gets going, seasonal recipe: courgette bolognaise
In praise of Spring, lambing 2016, Devon Rubies head to Gloucestershire, the return of the Baking Fool, mechanisation arrives at South Yeo, agile Mack
The turning of the year, Herdwicks in their homeland, bespoke fun, the Scilly Isles, Poilly wows the judges, Countryside Stewardship
Tentatively summer, the lambing of the Herdwicks, Mack goes to school, swallows and herons, shearing and lamb boxes
It’s all about calving, lambing, farrowing and hatching! The Herdwicks arrive, and a catch up with the dogs
Barn owls, Mack the pup, cow hair everywhere, @FarmersOfTheUK, decorating after ten years, loads of Devon Ruby beef recipes and Country Smallholding magazine
Rare beasts, the Oscars, muck gets flung, a holiday, apples and cider and CAKE!
The O show part 2, baby birds, Hi Herd health, foiling escapee sheep, Andrew the baking fool and light rye bread, and of mice and veg.
The O show, grateful but sodden, piggy pleasures, weaning and losing one’s moo, baking not lambing, beware cheap fence posts, Badger Faces on BBC Lambing Live and farewell to Fenn.
Reflecting on the year, the orchard gets a beating, our very first Devon Ruby beef, smallholder courses, and piglets ahoy.
Sex and the single cow, blackberry vinegar, revamping cowshed #2, Pilgrim geese go large, harvesting: first beef, new birds and brambles.
Exporting to Germany, barn owls and lambs, digging ditches, building cob ovens, the horridness of Schmallenberg and grass
The roar of the bull elephant, the baking fool, yet more hedging, horsing around, calves and silver linings
Hunkering down & hibernating, cidermaking, cowshed #2, buttocks and escapee Casanovas
Foraging, building your very own cob oven, more cows, Higher Level Stewardship, on camera and more
Our first Devon Ruby calf, goslings, shearing, sunny jims, making brawn and collecting the rain
Reproduction, rebuilding the old dairy, toe trimming, Pilgrim geese and Grow Your Own
A full year, Whiteface Dartmoors, tractors, turkeys, our new cows, RIP Humphrey
Goats, our first cows, turkeys, kosher salt, green electrickery and putting our plans into action
Celebrating six years on the farm, making plans and more plans.
Wassailing with Wren Music; lambing goes high tech; hedging, banking and fencing; apples and orchards, funding for courses and pork, pork, pork…
Trying to keep warm; premature tupping; cavorting with romantic novelists; welcoming Pilgrim geese and saying goodbye to Mopsa
Fame on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today; going international; Dahlia the Berkshire gilt; building a cob bread oven and taking it easy…
Celebrating our fifth anniversary on the farm; seeing our livestock in print; View from the Field, taking stock…
