This month’s Women in Farming is a lady with big ambition and a quirky style. Abbie Dixon, 26, is the creative mind behind the independent Manchester based fashion label Bee Sting. Inspired by her horse Makalu’s shoes, Abbie started the brand from her bedroom on the family farm in Bolton, where she grew up. The…
Hannah Russell lives In the Yorkshire Dales with her for horses – Badger, Paddy, Pepper and Little Alf, two dogs – Sasha and Maggie, three guinea pigs Candy, Hamish and Holly, rabbits rabbits Malibu and Muffles and a hamster called twinkle, so there is always something to do. Hannah has lived in the Yorkshire Dales…
I think you all know me well enough by now that I find it very difficult to say no to new animals. So when Baby Born got in touch to see if we could give Sunny and Baby, her foal a home, I just couldn’t say no. They arrived in a lovely (horse) box and…
Recently, we got sent a lovely children’s book and I have a confession to make. I read the first chapter to Boo and G at bedtime and it was so good that I whisked it downstairs after bedtime and read the rest in one sitting. You see, The Magical Adventure of Little Alf-The Discovery of…
Farm equipment can be a bit dull to me. It’s all mucky green, dull yellow or faded red. Not the tractors, obviously, they are always shiny but other equipment, like wheelbarrows, for example are just plain old boring. Since the school chickens moved into their new coop and the battery hens arrived, I had been…
If you follow me on Facebook, last Monday I announced something very exciting had happened but I couldn’t tell you yet. Someone messaged me thinking I was pregnant again but no, apart from the dipstick in this story, I am not pregnant. Then yesterday, you may have seen on social media that we got a…
We love horses here at the farm and I would like to encourage Boo to get into horses through playing horse games as I think looking after animals is good for children. After all, surely a girl who likes horses is less likely to get into boys right? That is my hope, anyway. I can…
