I think you would have had to be walking around with your eyes shut in the last month or so to miss the current milk crisis. From farmers rolling up at supermarkets in their tractors to cows trotting down the refrigerated aisles, it’s all going off at the moment. I have bided my time to … [Read more…]
Like me on our farm, Irish farmers who make Kerrygold, like their animals to be happy. The Kerrygold story is a simple one. They work with small co-operative farms where small herds are free to graze on lush Irish meadows. It means Kerrygold cows are healthy and happy, free to roam outside. It’s these cows, … [Read more…]
What do you get if you cross a popular member of an ex-boy band and a tractor? A sure-hit BBC show, that’s what. Former JLS singer, JB Gill is already known as a farmer and he is about to co-present a children’s TV series, Down On The Farm, on Cbeebies with Storm Huntley. I know you … [Read more…]
Ive always wanted to try decoupage but I just hadn’t been inspired about what to do it on and what to do it with. Until now. As with many second children, Baby G’s bedroom is smaller than his big sister’s but I still wanted him to have a book case. So I found this one, … [Read more…]
Farming families love to watch programmes about other farmers, well we do anyway. Everything stops for Country File and I mean everything. However, despite farmers loving everything about their trade, it may be true that the general public isn’t always as enthusiastic. Well, that is until a television company recruited celebrities to herd sheep. That’s … [Read more…]
The schools may have only just broken up for the holidays and you may still be thinking about where to go on your summer break but some people are starting their preparations for Christmas. This week, Baby G and I went to meet Paul McAvoy, a small holder and turkey farmer from Crouchley Hall Farm … [Read more…]
Have you ever been so enthusiastic about something that you have no idea how to go about telling people about it justly? Last week, I went along to the Mornflake factory in Crewe for their #MornflakeSeedToBowlEvent. Since then, I have been worrying about how to write up my experiences because there is a lot riding … [Read more…]
Yesterday was my favourite day if the farming year. Sheep shearing. The actual technical side of the day was unchanged from last year so if you want to read about that, you can here. The differences this year were obviously out new addition, our little farm baby who had some milk, looked at the … [Read more…]
This weekend is BritMums Live. It is the UK’s biggest, two-day social media conference and blogger event, where lifestyle bloggers and social influencers gather to meet and socialise, network with brands, improve their skills, and fire their creativity. My social media news feeds are awash with excitement. What to wear, what to take, where … [Read more…]
Today I took the kids to a farm to celebrate Open Farm Sunday. We went to Shoots Delph Farm in St Helens. Like our farm, it has been passed down through generations of the Forster family for hundreds of years and they run a successful organic meat business raising cattle and sheep which they butcher … [Read more…]
