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I’ve unearthed a diary entry from five years ago, when we moved from our former home in Yorkshire to Foxglove Farm in Lincolnshire. I’d forgotten just how stressful it had been and thought I’d share it in the blog to give you all a laugh. Tony and I thought we’d done so well, our personalContinue reading “Moving to Foxglove Farm”

Part Four – Winter Apologies for starting off my look back at winter 2020 with something rotten, namely this old log, but we often have interesting fungus popping up in the grass on the back lawn which I believe it is mainly from spores that grow on decayed tree branches buried under the grass. I’mContinue reading “A Look Back at 2020 on Foxglove Farm”

Part Three – Autumn The kitchen is the room in which we spend most of our time when we’re not working but it doesn’t have the prettiest view. We overlook a grain store and other agricultural outbuildings, which doesn’t bother us, indeed we are quite envious because we’d love some large outbuildings ourselves, but weContinue reading “A Look Back at 2020 on Foxglove Farm”

Part Two – Summer When the sun came out it was time for Nelly’s first bath of the year. When we first got her, many years ago, she was the most beautiful dark dappled grey with a coat as shiny as a child’s wooden rocking horse but she’s an old lady in her 20s nowContinue reading “A Look Back at 2020 on Foxglove Farm”

Part One – Spring My second post of 2021 seems an apt time to take stock of the jobs we’ve tackled at Foxglove Farm over the past year. It goes without saying that it was an extremely difficult year for people the world over and whilst a few types of businesses thrived under the newContinue reading “A Look Back at 2020 on Foxglove Farm”

(*with apologies to Proust since I will not be mentioning madeleines!) As we go into Tier 4 I thought we all needed a bit of a boost so I’ve decided to write about happier times, namely the garden from late spring into summer. Hannah put a lot of effort into growing vegetables for the tableContinue reading “A Remembrance of Things Past* – let’s hope for better things to come!”

To all our customers, old and new, here’s hoping all our families and friends stay safe and well over the Christmas holidays. Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to you all, from Annie, Hannah, Tony and George x

Every year we make and sell holly wreaths from the cattery. Luckily, we have a lot of holly hedges so finding raw materials is no problem. I make the holly bases and Hannah oversees the decorations. For the second year running we decided to make simple, inexpensive wreaths suitable for decorating doors or to beContinue reading “Christmas is Coming … but we sold all our geese a while back!”

Anyone who knows Hannah and me will realise that shopping for clothes doesn’t feature amongst our hobbies. In summer we’re normally clad in scruffy shorts and ancient T-shirts. In winter we move into ancient thermal jodhpurs (complete with moth holes) and fleeces. When it gets really cold, we stick our overalls on top of theContinue reading “Unexpected Gifts in the Post”

We managed to hatch five out of the six eggs – we discarded one on candling because it was empty. These little babies are definitely not Pekins or any sort of bantam. They are our first Brahmas, a large, gentle breed, said to be good all year round layers and hardy in cold conditions. ItContinue reading “The Hatchlings Emerge”