View from our new two person log cabin (currently being built, will be ready for guests in the Spring). Bookings already open for the tents, click on our camping page.
The Ewes are getting ready to meet their husbands
Will is getting the girls (ewes) ready to meet the rams, these ewes are all 18 months old. Jim the sheep dog rounds them up and pushes them up through the race. Will tidies the girls up and they go back out into the field. The rams stay with them for 1 month before returning home. There will be roughly 100 ewes in this big field and 2 rams. (Will says they are lucky rams).
How to Create the Perfect Leg of Lamb
When deciding what to produce at Manor Farm, we are lucky as we have an abundance of pasture that gives us plenty of room for manoeuvre. Once upon a time spare grassland in Hampshire was gobbled up by the demand for cereal production, but because some of our fields are old water meadows that are part of a natural drainage system, cultivation was pointless. We decided to stick to a mixed farm system, and nowadays, we’re rather glad we did.
