Farming in action

Visiting the sheep morning and evening, and waving the pink bucket is paying off. There are definitely two groups: the friendly sheep that come running up as soon as we enter the field and like following in formation, and those that are more reserved who hang round the back of the field.

But with twice daily trips, we can now get them all gathered around the feeding troughs.

All small steps to practice for the next phase: rounding them up into the collecting pen when our farm handling system arrives. In the future we hope to be leading them up to the milking parlour.

Lottie keeping a watchful eye, not sure she is ready to get off the lead yet though....

There has been loads of other things happening, more fencing going up on Barn and Close Field, a new tool shed, the first flurry of snow and breaking the ice on the water trough.

We have been continuing to work hard on our polytunnel, adding leaf compost and horse manure to the fanastic cow dung we got in the summer. Hopefully all this will create some wonderful vegetable beds to start growing on next Spring.

Thanks to Sophie and Sam for getting the manure and the team work to drag it to the polytunnel!

Broad bean seedling getting ready to move to its new home once the beds are ready!