Our Tuesday gardening group is often blessed with sunshine and yesterday was no different. This was particularly welcome after the wind and rain of the weekend. Time then to getting planting! After a spot of weeding we lightly dug in…

Its Halloween this weekend and I know there will be some fun and frights at Fordhall on Sunday from 5.30 till 8.30 pm for children and families to enjoy.We had harvested a pumpkin in the garden a few weeks a…

What I enjoy about gardening is thinking about the future! We gardeners look forward to buying seeds ready for the spring and we plan what to plant in order to dream about the produce and what can be done with…

On Tuesday 13th August myself and Emma went up to visit the Growing Well project in Cumbria. This is an amazing project that employs 6 staff members. They run a commercially viable business that supplies vegetable as part of a…

  I knew it wasn’t going to rain and I knew it was going to be hot, but I couldn’t have imagined how much of a scorcher it actually was at our Summer Fair on July 7th. Ben’s catering trailers…

Don’t forget that this Sunday, here at Fordhall Farm, we are holding our 8thannual Summer Fair, from 10am – 4pm. It will be a fundraising, family day out celebrating bees and butterflies. Town Crier – Geoff will be here to open…

The Summer Fair is soon upon us and we are getting a real buzzaround the event.  This year, we have decided to have a fluttering theme of bees and butterflies. We want to celebrate these amazing critters and all that…

Brigit telling the group how wonderful horse chestnut trees are for bees. Last Sunday the inspirational Brigit Strawbridge came to Fordhall to run a workshop on bees. Did you know for example, that in the UK we have 267 different…

We are proud to announce the Shropshire premiere of John Kirkpatrick’s latest folk music project on Sunday 9th June at 7.30pm here at Fordhall Farm. John Kirkpatrick has lived in Shropshire since 1973 and has always listened out for tunes…

Charlotte and Adam On the 8th and 9th May I was invited by shareholder Adam Denard, to visit the Isle of Manto speak to their Permaculture Group about Fordhall’s outdoor grazing system and our innovative community structure. Having never visited…