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Cheese

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    Land of Milk and Honey

    Blog 28th June 2023

    When I first heard that phrase, in Sunday School as a child, my mind conjured up a very sticky scene akin to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ with waterfalls of honey and rivers of milk, it sounded rather sickly – not somewhere I wanted to live. Over the years, I’ve realised that milk and honey are simply the evidence, the fruit, of a very fertile, lush land. Bees can only make honey with bountiful flowers around and milk flows strongest when the animals are happy in pasture. This month I’ve milked a sheep and harvested honey, with minimum sticky mess…

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    All Aboard!

    Blog 12th September 2018

    As Summer days shrink at both ends and a new term starts at school we celebrate the harvest and look forward to all the lovely Autumn activities ahead and, as usual, say ‘All Aboard and Join us on the Journey’…

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    Baking with Bertinet

    Blog 28th January 2017

    The perfect start to the year… One of the advantages of running your own business is that you can choose when to take a longer than usual break from work…

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    Doing it for the kids…

    Blog 25th May 2016

    What a week we had! 300 children met our chickens on Monday, 22 pre-school children and their grown ups helped with the bee keeping on Tuesday and 60 children baked…

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    Super, Super, Super…

    Blog 11th May 2016

    Yesterday was a good day, OK it was sopping wet with so much rain that we had to postpone our Full Day Bee Keeping Course, but we had some super…

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    One Spoon or Two?

    Blog 20th April 2016

    We had been planning it since last August and finally the day came around for our first greenwood craft day at Hen Corner. It was great to work with guest…

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    On your marks, get set, GROW!

    Blog 5th April 2016

    Regular readers may remember reading about our renovations in the Kitchen Garden earlier this year, the hoops and nets are really successful at keeping the chickens/cats/pigeons/foxes/etc. off our raised beds…

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    Egg, Eggs, Eggs…

    Blog 29th March 2016

    We have enjoyed numerous egg hunts this week, searching for the tiniest eggs laid by our queen bees, through the colourful eggs of our hens to the largest chocolate eggs…

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    Boing! (the sound of Spring…)

    Blog 21st March 2016

    Sara has just returned from a wonderful week contributing to the programme of talks at the Country Living Spring Fair, it was lovely to meet so many people who had…

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    New Chickens, New Cheese…

    Blog 23rd February 2016

    We’ve had a very productive Half Term… Whilst the grass may still be damp, even waterlogged, a couple of days of fabulous sunshine over the last week has permitted a…

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