🥧 We delivered a hamper full of Fordhall home made pork pies yesterday to the NHS team at the Redwoods Centre in Shrewsbury. These guys are working extremely hard caring for patients with acute mental health problems, dementia and rehabilitation…
Updates
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Mental health awareness
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Connecting and growing the family
If you have seen Ben’s videos online, you will have seen that we now have an organic milk vending machine onsite. We have created a partnership with Shropshire based Taylors organic dairy, and in doing so we were very surprised…
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Making the most of the garden
As a family we have successfully reached the end of our two week isolation period. When the initial stress and struggles of remaining within our own four walls had sunk in, I actually think we found many positives during the…
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Listening to the wind
This is one of my favourite views at Fordhall. It is the view I have when lying down in the garden of the farmhouse looking up at the beautiful beech tree. I have spent many summers doing this as a…
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Have you seen Ben’s videos?
Well what a crazy few weeks! I am sure many of you are in just as much shock as we are. Every day has brought new changes and new challenges, it has been hard to keep up, but we have…
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With a Huff and a Puff!
Phew, it’s Friday evening after all the hustle and bustle of a busy long working week. Now I can sit back and forget the huge pile of paperwork I have left in the office and the business meetings and motorway…
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Straw Bale Bunkhouse Update.
Thank you to everybody who has already very generously donated towards our new straw bale bunkhouse. Pictured below are some of the photographs taken over the last few months as our bunkhouse takes shape. Building the straw bale walls. Volunteers…
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Sweet Chestnut at Fordhall
It will be October on Monday and already the farm is showing signs of a golden autumn. The Sweet Chestnut trees are beginning to drop their fruit which is larger than normal this year but still not fully ripened. David…
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Sharing Food by Anna Zimmerman (shareholder)
Once upon a time, sharing food was an uncomplicated business – a way to foster unity and harmony. Families said grace before sharing a roast, banquets sealed peace treaties, and lovers played footsie beneath tables (fortunately some still do). Nations…
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Thank You Fordhall – From Sami and Jolly
To Fordhall Farm by Sami and Jolly We came to Fordhall farm for the straw bale bunkhouse building workshop. We really enjoyed staying here. It has been so much fun and we learnt so much. It was great that they…