Our trip to Wiggly Wigglers, a Herefordshire natural gardening company, was a late addition to an already full itinerary but we had heard that its founder, Heather Gorringe, was a really interesting woman, and decided we could probably squeeze something else in before we collapsed of exhaustion. It was well worth the effort. After developing… Continue reading Wiggly Podcasting
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A Day on a Mixed Farm
Exactly midway through our tour, we spent the day ‘helping’ Christina’s friend’s brother on his mixed farm in Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire. We’re not sure how much help we were, but it was damn good fun! At 23, Hugh Darbishire is back on the family farm after finishing college and bursting with ideas. But it’s not… Continue reading A Day on a Mixed Farm
Making Ice Cream at Red Lion Farm
We went along to Red Lion Farm, a family-run dairy farm in Haughton, Staffordshire, to find out how they make their delicious ice cream. We pulled up outside a very smart Scandinavian-looking log cabin (their shop and tea-room) and were met by Alison Hollinshead, who runs the business with her mother and father.
Speed Dating at Harper Adams
We had a great night at the speed dating evening at Harper Adams. There were around fifty people keen to get involved, ranging from freshers to fourth-year students, and some veeeery positive answers on the cards they had to fill out about the people they chatted to. We’re convinced that some of them will be… Continue reading Speed Dating at Harper Adams
Fighting for Fordhall Farm
Following on with our theme of the lengths to which people will go to stay where they feel they belong, there is no story more inspiring than Charlotte and Ben Hollins’ battle against the odds to save their family farm and the way of life that their father believed in so passionately. When we arrived… Continue reading Fighting for Fordhall Farm
BBC Shropshire
One of our more bizarre radio interviews, the BBC Shropshire presenter had spotted our van and left a post-it note on the windscreen asking us to do an interview. We rang him and eventually managed to catch up with him in a parking area at the side of a main road where he conducted the… Continue reading BBC Shropshire
Muddy Matches Visit Fordhall
Our visit gets a write-up in the Fordhall Initiative Diary after we visit Fordhall Farm on our travels. Click here.
Muddy Matches at BASC HQ
Having met a couple of people who work for BASC over the weekend we decided it might be nice to pay them a visit at their office since we were practically passing the door. It was great: we met up with Jane who gave us a tour (they’ve got cool offices based around a converted… Continue reading Muddy Matches at BASC HQ
Chinese Whispers
Those of you keeping an eye on what we were up to in Wales would have seen that we went to the Plough Inn in St Asaph to hold a Pub Social. To quote us in our itinerary, “apparently this pub is a farmer’s hotspot”. Err…it wasn’t…far from it, in fact! We’re not sure how… Continue reading Chinese Whispers
Green Shoots North Wales: Shooting for Conservation
On Saturday, we spent a very interesting day with Alex Hatton from the BASC initiative, Green Shoots North Wales, to find out what their aim was and what work was being done. Background to BASC and the Green Shoots Initiative BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) is the largest and oldest shooting association in… Continue reading Green Shoots North Wales: Shooting for Conservation