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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Summer is here and the Swallows are a wonderful sight as they swoop and dive in and out of the buildings at amazing speed. Just thought you might like to see this photo of three swallows sat on our overhead wires in the farm yard - mum, dad and fledgling - I can imagine them all discussing which of our cars they are going swoop down to dive bomb next! Watch me son, I'll get the blue car then you get the big red tractor Felicity...
Round bale silage in the top meadows Time passes so quickly and here in the Peak District we are already approaching the middle of summer, and looking towards the winter months when we will have stock sheltering in the farm buildings who need feeding. Today we decided to make round bale silage as the weather has not been sunny enough over the past few weeks to make more hay. You can see an action video of the final cut of silage being round baled on the top meadows at Hoe Grange - you get fabulous panoramic views from our fields. First th...
A cute puppy Still very tiny, but ever so adorable. The final count late on Wednesday night was a whoping 8 puppies for Twix, all are doing fine, feeding well and already growing fast. There were 6 boys and 2 girls. If you are lookng for a Lab puppy let us know....
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...







