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One of the very few negative comments that past visitors have made about Hoe Grange is the poor state of the drive up to the farm yard. Particularly those with converted wheelchair accessible cars. Well the time has come to do something about it. With the arrival of the first load of Tarmac the anticipation was tremendous, would we really have a drive that would not shake you to to pieces. As the morning progressed we could begin to imagine what the final outcome would be like. More Tarmac And then by late lunch time (and 160 tonnes of Ta...
Our enourmous mole is at work yet again and digging continues in various places around the farm! David has been digging the trench for the new electric cables running up from the tradtional stone stables across the stack yard to the finished foundations ready for when the new Rainster log cabin arrives at Hoe Grange. We currently have 3 diggers of vairous sizes on site and David is becoming a dab hand at manoevering piles of earth and stone. Two out of the three ground source heating trenches have been completed. Whislt we have gen...
This week it looks as though a large mole has been at work in the farm field next to the cabins, with mountains of dark earth piled high. But no - there is no mole, just David digging three large 100m long trenches for the ground source heating system for our cosy new log cabins. The ground source heating works a bit like a reverse fridge and uses a pump to circulate the natural heat absorbed from the ground through the ground loop pipes, filled with a mixture of water and anti freeze, which are buried beneath the surface. In the UK the...
Today has been a mixed one with the unfortunate death of my Derbyshire Redcap hen. I have no idea what was wrong with her? She started staying by the coup all day last week rather than scratting around with the other hens as usual. She got quieter day by day, until this week she didn't even move out of the coup at all, and simply stopped eating. There were no outwardly physical signs of illness and she wasn't infested with mites or fleas - sometimes that can really get them down. I hope whatever it was isn't catching - fortunately the others a...
New Cabin
February 22, 2010
Accessible Holidays, Farm, General, Group Holidays, Peak District, Tourism,Felicity and I are delighted to announce that we have been successful in our bid for RDPE grant funding from European Union (EU) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), for the expansion of our self catering business - fantastic news! - we are now able to build two further log cabins with excellent disabled facilities. The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), with environmental stewardship at its heart, aims to safeguard and enhance the rural environment, improve the competitiveness of the agricultural s...







