February 2025 at Stourton

Special Offer on Chunky wood chip!

For a limited time only we have a great offer on Chunky Wood Chip. This product is great for drying out a wet gateway or on waterlogged ground that needs to be walked on/ driven over.

We’re offering it at £50 per builders bag (0.7 cubic metre) and this includes delivery*. Supply is limited and we are only taking orders over the phone for this. – To place your order please contact us.

*Delivery is FREE when you order Logs or Landscaping products, within our 20 mile radius from LN9 5PB.

Willoglow Briquettes – an excellent alternative to Kiln Dried Logs.

Whilst we are now out of our kiln dried logs for the season you can still keep your fires burning (when will it warm up?) with our Willoglow Briquettes.

Made from 100% British Willow!, and with only 8% moisture content, these logs burn with a long-lasting heat output with no additives or chemicals.  Each pack contains 7 full size briquettes.  They are packed in re-cycled plastic & are easy to modify in size to fit any multifuel stove, open fire, firepit or BBQ and are free from spitting or sparking.  This is the perfect product to use all year round.

These briquettes are on offer at just £8.50 per pack. Place your order now.

On the Estate

Work has been well underway to clear, level, patio, fence & seed the garden at Gardeners Cottage. We’d like to thank Sean from Clark Landscaping & Jake from Jake Clowes Garden Services for all their hard work. Already let, the new tenants are hoping to move in on 1st April, where we hope they will quickly make themselves at home.

The recent wet weather caused an urgent emergency repair to the dam around the bottom of the big lake.  Thankfully the aggregate bags we lifted in place have knitted together and have stopped the seepage before we organise a more permanent repair!

New Gourmet Venison Burgers soon to be in stock!

We are delighted to announce a new product in our venison range. We are soon to launch our hand pressed Gourmet Venison Burgers. Rigorously tested on and approved by the family, these burgers include a new (secret) spice mix. With 100%venison and absolutely no fillers or artificial colours or preservatives these burgers are tasty, healthy and local produce at its very best.

These burgers will be available at Louth market on Wednesday 26^th March and will soon be online – in the meantime please phone 01507 578236 to place your order.

We’ve got lots of venison in stock of all cuts and types. To order from the office please contact us and Tina will put together your order for collection from the farm by arrangement or delivery with any logs or landscaping product order.

We’re delighted to be Visitor Ready!

We have recently gained our VisitorReady accreditation. This shows our customers and visitors that we are committed to running a safe and trusted business. You can be confident that in the background we have ticked all of our health and safety, fire safety and have all the insurance requirements in place before you visit us. Well done Team Stourton!

Event Leaflets to Share & even MORE events in the pipeline!

All of our main events for 2025 are now scheduled. Please visit our events page to put the dates in your diary! However, we are in the process of finalising a very exciting wellbeing experience which will be held on 31^st May & 1st June AND we hope to announce a ?brand new event in October – watch this space.

In the meantime, if you run a hospitality business / B&B or have holiday cottages are would like some of our leaflets to share with your visitors please get in touch and we will happily send some out to you.

On the Farm

February has seen the farm start to wake up from the shorter dark days of winter, we have felt some warm days and the start of spring is here. The farm team have been busy applying the first dose of fertiliser to our winter crops as they begin to green up and start to grow. The day length determines how a plant develops so as the days get longer they sense the change and start to look for more nutrition which we give them in two forms, granular and liquid. The granular fertiliser will then be used in the next two doses to give the crops what they need to grow to their full potential. We have recently installed a N-Sensor on the cab of the John Deere which will be used while applying the granular fertiliser, it measures the amount of nitrogen already in the crop via sensors and changes the rate accordingly, this ensures the plant gets what it needs but eliminates over fertilising thus reducing excessive fertiliser in the soil and helps the crops to use the nitrogen we have applied in the most efficient way. 

We have also ploughed some more land for sugar beet, this will be planted later in spring, hopefully from mid March onwards depending on weather. Some spring barley has been drilled in good conditions. This barley is grown under a contract to be used for malting, we have to be careful how we grow this to meet the quality that is required of this contract. The issue is mainly nitrogen content so we must be careful not to over fertilise this crop. 

We are continuing to feed our wild bird population in the feeders and also they are sheltering and feeding in our areas of Winter Bird seed mixtures that we have planted around the farm. The next month will be busy on the farm as we increase our work out in the fields drilling, fertilising and spraying crops.  

Deer Diary

We always knew she was destined for stardom and Dotty has indeed proven us right. Waitrose Weekend Magazine is currently featuring an article about how we rear our deer here at Stourton and Dotty and Antony had to get ready for their close up. We’d like to thank Neve for being an excellent handler on the day and, of course, Dotty for co-operating – all it took was some barley.

The less famous parkland deer have been enjoying the slightly warmer spell of weather we have seen in the last couple of days – the sun has even shone quite briefly – so much so that even Harry the normal grumpy stag was prancing around the parks!

The young deer calves are still settled in the roundhouse as it’s not yet warm enough for them to be out in the parks. They are now very used to poking their heads through the bars for their feed.