Browse through our blog posts to find out what life is like at Hoe Grange Holidays along with some great ideas for days out in the Peak District.
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Exciting news! Twix's first puppy Twix our chocolate Labrador has had four gorgeous puppies this afternoon and there could be more on the way - we will have to wait and see. In the meantime you can view the first two puppies on You Tube Twix's first litter of puppies. Felicity...
Was the farmer really naked? - well certainly not when we went to bale the hay, we insisted David was fully dressed! Haymaking at Hoe Grange Thank goodness we only did 10 acres We were making small bales for the horses and calves, which is a much more manual task than making the larger modern bales, so it was a family outing to the top fields and all hands on deck. The conventional balers have a mind of their own and are difficult to set correctly, so to start with we had very light fluffy bales which were great to lift, but bowed like a ...
Who would be a farmer? It's days like today with brilliant sunshine that I sometimes wish I had a nine to five job - everyone else is lazing around in the garden, relaxing, reading the Sunday papers, beer in hand, whilst I am out in the field working hard making hay while the sunshines! Today I have been tedding with a hay bob - technical term for fluffing up, turning the grass over and spreading it out, so that is dries out evenly and goes that wonderful golden colour, before rowing up and bailing. These days the majority of farmers tend...
You will be pleased to hear that following the incident with the Fox in the night there are 4 new arrivals at Hoe Grange to keep our golden silky (now named Lucky after her fortunate escape) company - well I couldn't leave her all alone. They are all Warrens, a good reliable egg laying breed, and are settling in well, although as you can see from the photo Lucky is not entirely sure about the new recruits! Who's eating my dinner! The new free range hens are a year old and already laying eggs for our guests - why not book a holiday with us i...
A disaster at Hoe Grange - this morning I went as usual to let our free range chickens out only to find feathers everywhere. In horror I realised that I had forgotten to shut them up the previous evening - having just come back from holiday my routine went to pot and I simply some how forgot - as David will tell you I am usually paranoid about shutting them up last thing at night. the girls enjoying the great outdoors The hazard of a truly free range life is that Mr Fox is never far away and ever ready to take advantage of any such opportun...







