Tag: country friends

Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil

For our last business visit, we decided to keep it local and popped in to see Duncan Farrington, who produces Mellow Yellow cold pressed rapeseed oil on the family farm near Hargrave, Northamptonshire. Mellow Yellow rapeseed oil and the new Farrington salad dressings Duncan became interested in oilseed rape back in the 90s when he… Continue reading Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil

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

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

Entrepreneurship and Beagling

Back in September we were helping out at a Young Countryside Alliance Ball in Northamptonshire and got talking to Philip Price, who had provided the bucking bronco and laser shooting for the evening. At that time we were in the process of organising our Muddy Marathon and were looking for interesting young rural entrepreneurs to… Continue reading Entrepreneurship and Beagling

Hi-Vis Beating

Whilst in Essex, we were lucky enough to be invited to go beating on a small family shoot near Rochford. Now, between the two of us we’ve done quite a lot of beating over the years but have never been kitted out with all the paraphernalia that we got on this day; hi-vis jackets, gardening… Continue reading Hi-Vis Beating

Radio Masts at Dawn

A man from BBC Essex Radio came to interview us at about 7am in the farmyard we had parked in the night before.  He had trouble finding us and was slightly disgruntled to find there were so many overhead wires.  We couldn’t understand what the problem was until we finally found a wire-free area and… Continue reading Radio Masts at Dawn

Muddy Pub Quiz at the St John Arms

The Muddy Marathon got off to a great start with our first ever ‘Muddy Pub Quiz’ at the St John Arms in Melchbourne, Bedfordshire. There was a great mix of people including locals from the surrounding villages and Muddy Matches members that had travelled from a bit further afield.  Some of our fishing week competition… Continue reading Muddy Pub Quiz at the St John Arms