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sledge hammer swings into action! Ooops - the gate into the cow yard is too narrow for the cabin to squeeze through so David is out with the sledge hammer knocking the wall down to widen the gateway ready for tomorrow! Felicity...
Life is certainly very hectic at the moment! Spring work at Hoe Grange Farm Inbetween all the preparations for the arrival of the new self catering log cabin David has been busy farming and trying to keep on top of the Spring work at Hoe Grange. It is vital to get the fields in shape at this time of year, including chain harrowing to rip out the dead grass and aerate the sward, allowing the younger grass to come through quicker. It also levels out molehills, flattens uneven ground where cattle have trodden up the mud and breaks up and distrib...
Hoe Grange hosted a farm walk organised by Natural England regarding the new Uplands Entry Level Scheme (UELS). Hoe Grange has been in the Entry Level Scheme for sometime and I was keen to find out more about UELS and how we could implement it on our farm. Mark Taylor of Natural England explains about UELS Environmental Stewardship is an agri-environment scheme that provides funding to farmers who deliver effective environmental management on their land. Uplands ELS is a new strand of Environmental Stewardship, designed specifically for u...
The New Log Cabin progresses
April 7, 2010
Accessible Holidays, Building, General, Group Holidays, Peak District, Tourism,Rainster edges nearer completion...
Our resident watercolour artist Roger Allen recently opened his one man exhibition in Buxton at the Museum and Art Gallery. We attended the preview on March 6th and we were pleasantly surprised by the number of his paintings that showed our dairy herd that was sold last summer. It bought a bit of a lump to the throat to see the cows that we knew so well. One of the largest pictures named 'The collecting yard' showed the cows feeding in the yard waiting to be milked. We both thought that it would be nice to have that painting but unfortunately ...







