This weekend was open farm Sunday, when around a thousand farms nationwide open their doors to let the rest of us have a nosey around. We tend to go to the farm a mile or so up the road. It's a mixed arable and livestock farm that's on National trust property and the farmer seems to be very keen on sustainable farming. They do a tractor ride around the farm and we stop at various points to hear about different aspects of farming. There are wildflower borders round the fields to help the bees and listening to the farmer he talks about how to keep the soil healthy, preventing over use of fertilisers and pesticides. A few years ago he talked about the history of the farm.
The weather made it even more enjoyable as it was blazing down. There were various trails for the children and they could collect stickers by asking questions of the people there. I remember being rather partial to a sticker or two as a kid!
One guy was there talking about how they use modern technology to sample the fields and only add exactly what is required to the crops using GPS to alter the mix. It was so interesting.
We ended the afternoon by letting the kids play in the garden on the water slide.
Unfortunately he internet is still so slow and quite often we can't load a web page, so I'm behind on blog reading. It seems as though there's nothing we can do though as plus net have exhausted their know how and it seems to be like it or lump it now. I'm hoping it will fix itself, fingers crossed.
On Saturday James took the fireplace in the extension back to the original hole.
...and one last one, look at the chicks enjoying the scaffolding
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