Millie Godfrey was our volunteer from April – July 2024. She spoiled us all with her vegan dishes, and we managed to steal this recipe from our Strawberry Fairy. It’s for a cake, or cupcakes, or for whatever takes your fancy. Millie: Growing up, my mum always made this cake for her friend who was […]
Our farm runs on a number of energy inputs: the human energy that we all put into working the land and growing fantastic crops; the energy that we grow to produce the fertility our soils need to replenish the crops we remove from the land; the energy required to produce the materials we use on […]
This mouthwatering dish is the perfect accompaniment to any winter feast! A great way to use up the more knobbly parsnips that you might find in your veg box.
We get many visitors to our farm, it is in fact the most visited part of the Hardwick Estate and has been for many decades. People come for many reasons, to buy our produce is a definite one, more than 100 every week do this. The food festivals we put on help to put us […]
The unpredictable UK summer, shines on… As growers and farmers go, we all get a bit of a fixation with the weather, it’s just never quite right. It may well be perfect in one field but anything but so in another field just yards way. We grow a huge range of different crops almost a […]
So far this Spring, it has been the driest that we have ever recorded. Since the end of February, we have had a mere 13mm of rainfall. After a whole year of higher-than-average rainfall (160% of the usual), it finally stopped raining. This was a relief as we were getting just a bit bored with […]
It’s that time of the year again, when you know that spring is about to happen as the mud in the tractor turns to dust! At last we have some dry, albeit cold, weather to mark the start of the season. Nature reminds us of the coming long days and intense schedule that lies ahead […]
Resilience is just one element of our farm that we are continually working towards, it is becoming a common buzzword amongst agriculturalists, a word that you would probably not have heard within the context of agriculture a few years ago. What does this word actually refer to? A number of meanings come to mind. The […]