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Hen Corner

  • About
  • Courses
    • Online/Virtual Courses
    • Business Start Up
    • Retreats
    • Chickens & Bees
    • Bread & Baking
    • Artisan Food & Drink
    • Preserving
    • Families
    • Christmas
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Hen Corner

Families

Where Does My Food Come From?

Chickens & Bees, Families

Easter at Hen Corner

Chickens & Bees, Families

Baking Together

Bread & Baking, Families

Bees for Children

Chickens & Bees, Families

Family Feathers & Fun

Chickens & Bees, Families

About Hen Corner

We are Hen Corner. We love the bee keepers, the veggie bed diggers, the jam makers and cider drinkers, the chicken fanciers and the real bread bakers. But not just in the deepest darkest countryside or the far, far away villages but right here in our cities and towns.

Recent Posts

  • May We Join You?
    In Blog
    20th May 2021
  • Throw wide the doors – It’s our Birthday!
    In Blog
    12th April 2021
  • Boing! Spring Forward…
    In Blog
    10th March 2021
  • It’s All About The Bread…
    In Blog
    3rd February 2021

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Oh yes! The Venn diagram of weather for figs... wa Oh yes! The Venn diagram of weather for figs... warm, then wet, followed by sunshine ☀️ This year’s figs are as big as tennis balls 🎾🎾🎾
Here’s an update on our little experiment (see p Here’s an update on our little experiment (see previous post for teaser). We are putting empty jars into the hive to see if the bees will fill them with honey! Watch this space - well the spaces inside each jar... 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
Anyone else loving the sunshine? Anyone else loving the sunshine?
This season we have high hopes for our #BrentfordB This season we have high hopes for our #BrentfordBees and are going to try a new strategy for #premierleague honey 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯 Can you guess what we are hoping they will do? 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Welcome to June! Celebrating our first strawberry Welcome to June! Celebrating our first strawberry of the year ☀️🍓👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Meet Belle, a Modern English Game Bantam, with Bar Meet Belle, a Modern English Game Bantam, with Barbara, a Gold Partridge Brahma behind. Our smallest and largest chickens enjoying the sunshine together... ☀️🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓☀️
Happy 5th Birthday to @brentfordthrumylens 📷 🎂 What better way to show appreciation of Karen’s wonderful photos of Brentford, on this very special weekend, than a reminder of the photos that she took, here at Hen Corner, of the real Brentford Bees! 🐝🐝⚽️🏆⚽️🐝🐝
Feeding the new family of swans from our riverside Feeding the new family of swans from our riverside plot... Seven cygnets with their parents 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢 #Brentford #river #canal #SevenSwansASwimming
The *Perfect* treat for this time of year! And so The *Perfect* treat for this time of year! And so quick... 1) collect eggs from hens 2) cut asparagus from garden 3) grill asparagus & homemade bread 4) make easy hollandaise in bowl over poaching eggs Yummy 😋
Happy #WorldBeeDay 🐝🐝🐝 You can support a Happy #WorldBeeDay 🐝🐝🐝 You can support all our wonderful pollinators by providing habitats, nectar rich flowers, avoid using pesticides, choose organic food and buy their lovely honey from your local bee keeper! 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
Rhuby, Rhuby, Rhuby, Rhuby - Ah ah ah haha.... Thi Rhuby, Rhuby, Rhuby, Rhuby - Ah ah ah haha.... This is just one of my four babies and it makes my heart glad! #rhubarb #rhubarbseason #rhubarbandcustard #rhubarbcrumble
Oh yes! It’s Asparagus Season again... We plante Oh yes! It’s Asparagus Season again... We planted the bed around 12 years ago, didn’t harvest for the first few years, as advised, but now have all that we need - perfect with poached eggs and hollandaise 😋
May I introduce two fabulous new @BreadAngels who May I introduce two fabulous new @BreadAngels who were with me for face to face training this week! Whilst they both started their training virtually, it was great to get our fingers in the flour together and plan the next steps with their businesses... If you are interested in starting up your own bakery business, check out our course via link in bio 🥐🥯🍞🥖🥨
Meet one of our newest hens from @charlotteschicke Meet one of our newest hens from @charlotteschickens She’s a Silver Sussex with beautiful colours & markings. I can’t decide on a name for her - any suggestions???
When I first got my allotment by the river, I thou When I first got my allotment by the river, I thought I could differentiate the growing space from Hen Corner 🐓🐓🐓by calling it Duck Plot... Today there were four 🦆🦆🦆🦆sunbathing between the raised beds. - I hope they like eating slugs & snails 🐌 - I hope webbed feet are more gentle than claws!!!
After this afternoon’s rain and hail, it’s tim After this afternoon’s rain and hail, it’s time to snuggle up in the nest box... 🐓🐓
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