Alice and Luke, from the Brighton area, volunteered with us for two months over the summer, and moved on to paid work on an organic farm recently! Many thanks to Alice and Luke for their hard work and company whilst they were with us, good luck up country, and we hope to see you again soon.
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| Alice and Luke, on the left, enjoying their final morning coffee break on the farm. |
We have had a lot of volunteers through World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms this summer, and we'd like to thank those who have completed their stay with us already - Craig, Bestie, Ahn, Yoomi, Ute, Rainer, Nico, Lilly, Yerin, Steven, Haniel, Jose, Alyson, and Hajin. We wish you all the best with your onward journeys!
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| Group of WWOOF volunteers (plus local volunteer Ben) leaving the potato patch last week. |
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| Haniel and Steven picking tomatoes. |
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| Nico and Lilly with a trailer loaded with hay bales. |
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| Ute and Rainer collecting eggs. |
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| Craig, on the right, helping to plant leeks back in July. |
What a summer to try and make hay in! With many thanks to Clive Williams, our local hay contractor, we somehow managed to pick a perfect weather window, cutting on the 19th August, baling on the 22nd and 23rd, and bringing it all in to the barn by the 24th, at which point it started raining again!! This year we have 915 bales from 4 fields, and it is excellent quality, priced at only £3.50 per bale, available through our farm shop, which is open Monday to Saturday 10am till 5pm.
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| Clive lining up hay in Far Field Middle ready for baling. |
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| The small-baler ready for action. |
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| Luke and Alyson loading bales onto the trailer. |
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| Nico and Lilly in Carn Field with another trailer-load of hay (we had 16 of these). |
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| Unloading hay back in the farmyard. |
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| Stacking into the open barn ready for sale. |
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing away of one of our local stalwart volunteers, Nick, at the beginning of August, at the age of 45. Nick started coming to the farm when he was placed on furlough during the Covid lockdowns in 2020, and soon he was volunteering with us for 5 or 6 days per week, which was an enormous help to us, him, and the local community, as we struggled to keep up with the demands and pressures at that time. He enjoyed being on the farm so much that he was as annoyed as we were when he had to return to work! Nick was an incredible worker and an all-round great guy to have around. May he rest in peace.
Our veg shelves in the farm shop are looking beautiful and bountiful these days, and it's all our own produce too - new potatoes, tomatoes, aubergines, kale, basil, rainbow chard, red onions, brown onions, shallots, garlic, French beans, courgettes, green chillies, spring onions, rhubarb, perpetual spinach, and more. Our farm shop is run by volunteers (more are currently needed if you have some spare time!) and is open Monday to Saturday 10am till 5pm.
We also stock fresh bread daily, eggs, local organic milk and yoghurt, and a wide range of products such as biscuits, jams, chutneys, peanut butter, raw chocolate, muesli, flour, apple juice, Cornish cheeses, frozen curry sauces, veggie sausages, tea-bags, ground coffee, hot sauces, pasta, rice, lentils etc...
Three of our residential WWOOF volunteers have completed their stays with us recently, and so we would like to thank Bruno, Louis, and Clement, for their hard work and friendship whilst with us, and we would like to wish them all the best.
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| Louis, at far left, planting the last of our leeks, with Alice, Luke and Craig. |
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| Clement and Bruno digging some first early potatoes. |
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| Bruno on an early morning salad pick in the market garden. |
Recent boxes have also included spring onions, brown onions, rainbow chard, black Tuscan kale, blackcurrants, cucumbers, and garlic.
