Farming 95 acres of pasture, without buildings and little infrastructure is the first challenge. The second is to make it sustainable, for you, me, the soil, plants, animals and many others besides.

We have started official conversion to Organic status and eventually Biodynamic status. This is not done to add 'labels' to our produce, but reflects our 'Holistic' understanding and goals.

'The best we have ever eaten!' ...this is something I am pleased to say we have been told many times. From grass reared fillet steak to our naturally grown potatoes from our seriously free range eggs to our slow grown bacon - 'I had forgotten food could taste that good!'.

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July 2007

To the right is a picture of our hay meadow with the pig pen behind - we did get the pigs out in time, just.

This was just one meadow: adjacent to this lay acres of potatoes and other vegetables, under feet of water: only feral pumpkins survived!

Never to be demoralised by such minor events (we lost all our hay and forage crops too and weeks of work due to damage caused) we turned our attention to how else we may serve the local market, and having had many comments about the superb quality of our eggs we decided to increase our egg production: this too had been decimated in May buy a loose dog, leaving us with just nine hens (from 50).

Fate took a hand and we were given 350 Columbian Blacktail hens that were being replaced from an organic free range unit (thank you Colin and Jackie) and we were given enough corn (thank you Bob and Heather) not only to feed them but the pigs also for six weeks. However timing was an issue, so our calf pen that had been turned into refugee accommodation for the pigs (which they seemed to love), which then had to be moved out of to pastures new to be able to modify into temporary chicken house. The chicken are seriously free range at the moment whilst awaiting accomodations to finalised on the park.