Well, in the blink of an eye, April has suddenly appeared, although some days recently it has felt like July and others have felt like October! On the right side, the generally nice weather has meant that the crops are having a better year so far than in the last few years. Farming is a big gamble every year, and it has felt that we haven’t been on a winning streak, let’s all keep our fingers and toes crossed that England keeps itself together and manages to keep giving us nice weather until harvest. Aside from our farm work, we are so excited to be finally getting our plants back in – I really do love having them in as it means that I get to hear so much more about the gardens and allotments you have, and I get sent lots of nice photos of where you’re growing them and...

  Well, every year has its ups and downs, but it feels as if 2024 has really outdone itself! Its strangewith farming too; every year is theoretically the same, and they do start to blend into one – yet thisyear we saw some truly different things happen. Both great, and less great.One of the most positive things to come of 2024 for our family was Lydia, our middle child, decidedto work in Australia for 4 months, and she had an amazing time exploring Brisbane and the rest ofthe continent – she even had time to visit people we know who live over there, I’m sure some of youwill be reading this blog, so ‘hello’! Of course, since Lydia will also be reading this: we’re all veryproud of you, and so pleased you made so many friends at work and out of work!We had some terrible weather back here in old Britain....

  First half of 2024 Wow, does anyone else think that those first 6 months have gone so fast? Normally on our farm its easy to see the year passing us by as we watch the seasons change, but it’s only just started to feel like Spring in the last few weeks! The terrible weather meant that our donkeys were indoors for weeks longer than usual, but they’ve been terrifically well behaved and we did have to give them some toys to keep them occupied. I’m sure anyone who follows our social media will have noticed how happy they are now that they’re back in the field (up to mischief!) along with their 3 horse friends. This year is also exciting for both of our tree thicket and our orchard too. Over the last month, on fine days, myself and Chris have headed down to the trees to remove the ‘jackets’...

Well, it seems quite mad that after all of this horrible rain that Chris is still plugging away at making our shop bigger so that we can increase our gardening and plant supplies! It certainly doesn’t feel like March, but we’re ‘march’ing on through the muddy fields and wintery days to try and make this spring great, once it finally decides to arrive! If you’ve been in our shop recently (and if you have, thank you, we appreciate you all very much!), then you may have noticed that we’ve had a huge change around in the past few months! We have tonnes of new stock with our Trixie dog treats and some other small animal foods, plus we’ve even added a load of Timco hardware! We’re hoping that you DIY lovers and allotment holders might have a look at our wares, because our prices are great for the stock, and it...

Instead of Jeremy Clarkson, I’m beginning to think I’m married to one of those blokes on tele who has a new crazy idea to make money each episode – hence the title of this blog!! One thing is nice; Chris is always trying to help the environment and the local area at the same time. We’ve been so busy the last few weeks and months (thank you!!!), and haven’t really stopped since harvest – plus I help Robyn every day with her soap and candles too – and now he’s thrown a whole new one into the mix of things to think about. I suppose I can never say living with Chris Hogg is boring! This one is truly inspired, however I do keep tripping up on the name – I keep saying ‘your Christmas trees’ and he is very quick to correct me that he is in fact selling from...