The days are getting longer and its getting a little warmer and you are starting to think about giving your garden some much needed love after a long winter.
We have a range of landscaping products to help you with your garden projects:
Play Bark Chippings– sold in 0.7m3 builders bags these play bark chippings are perfect for creating a soft landing space under play ground equipment, whether in your garden or in a commercial setting. Sold in 0.7m3 builders bags, this is a great product if you have a larger area to cover to the correct depth for maximum safety.
Garden Bark Chippings – Whether you are landscaping your garden beds, laying a chicken run, or drying out a wet area such as a gateway or pathway this product is ideal to help retain moisture and prevent weed growth. Sold in 0.7m3 builders bags, this is a great product if you have a larger area to cover.
Kiln Dried Woodchip – Our small Kiln Dried Woodchip bags are bagged in 15kg or 75 litre bags for easy handling and storage. They are made from pure pine chip which is then graded to 10-30mm in size.
Delivery of your chippings is free if you live up to 20 miles from our farm in Baumber, Lincolnshire. Loose loads may also be available to order.
If you want more information about our landscaping products or to ask about a delivery outside of our free delivery area, please contact us.
We currently have our full range of venison products in stock. From joints and steaks to burgers and slow cooking cuts; why not give our lovingly reared venison a try.
We have a special introductory offer on our hand pressed gourmet burgers – £8 for a pack of 4 and also 15% off our venison haunch steaks – a great alternative to a rump or sirloin beef steak.
To place an order please call the office directly and Tina can arrange your delivery /collection for you.
We’re at Market Rasen Food & Drink fayre on Saturday 29th March and at were Louth Market on Wednesday 26th March with our venison, estate honey, antler dog chews & RG Taylors rapeseed oil. We love attending these events and meeting and chatting with our customers. We hope to see you there!
We are delighted to support the Thermomix / Venison demonstration. You can discover the joy of using a Thermomix and the delicious versatility of cooking with venison – a winning combination! This event is free to attend and takes place between 10.30am -12.00pm on 3rd April in Navenby. To book at space please follow this link
It’s not long to go now until our first market of the year. This is so much more than just a fabulous market – with not only a wide selection of Lincolnshire creatives, food producers, makers and artists showcasing their goods in and around the Roundhouse in the woods but you can really make a day of it. You can enjoy:
PLUS a great selection of quality hot food & drink vendors on site so you can enjoy food to eat whilst shopping! There’s live music and loads of atmosphere!
There is no entry fee or tickets for this event; all we charge is £5 per car to pay on the gate for parking which goes towards the upkeep of the venue. Not bad value for a day out!
For more information please click here.
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llowing the work to update both the inside and garden of Gardeners Cottage we are delighted to welcome a new family to live on the estate at the weekend.
The new roof for the safari tent is now in place. It’s really smartened it back up and will look picture perfect in all of the wedding photos of our couples who have booked to get married here this year.
We have finished chipping & then mulching the timber from Lodge Wood. This marks the end of our 10 year project to re-create the parkland landscape as it would have been in the 1800’s before the Forestry Commission planted low grade pine plantation trees for timber.
It’s great to feel some days where there is warmth from the sun, the crops are all enjoying the early spring weather. March has been a very dry month which has allowed us to get on well with the spring workload. We have been busy applying fertiliser to our winter crops and drilling spring crops this month. Currently we are cultivating our last field to drill sugar beet. The seed bed needs to be very good for sugar beet so we plough and cultivate for this crop more so than for cereals but it is a very good break crop from our mainly cereal based rotation. We are aiming for as much diversity in our rotation as possible as part of our regenerative farming journey so we now have grass, beans, wheat, barley and sugar beet. We are going to try to grow oilseed rape again but this has been a challenge for farmers recently due to a pest called Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle, this pest eats the small leaves as they emerge and don’t allow the plant to grow. There are a few different ways of establishing this crop which can help so fingers crossed this is successful.
The use of technology is important for us to improve efficiency and better use of inputs, with this in mind we are now using a Yara N Sensor, these are sensors mounted on the cab of the tractor and they scan the crop and will change the rate of nitrogen applied. We then have a record of how much nitrogen is applied to each area of the field according to crop requirements. The map shows a field of winter barley and the application rate varied across it.
We have recently purchased a new low disturbance subsoiler which we have used to relieve compaction before planting a crop of spring barley. This works by a leg with a small wing on the bottom to lift the soil profile but as the leg and wing are small it causes very little disturbance on the surface. The lower disturbance a cultivation is the more carbon that the soil retains as when you introduce air into soil it speeds up the decomposition of the organic matter which in turn releases CO2. The main use of this machine will be before we drill a winter crop when we use the Horsch Avatar direct disc drill.
There will be some exciting new additions to the farm in April, we are currently preparing a shed for their arrival…. more on this next month!!
Both Winston and Harry, our stags have dropped their HUGE antlers. This is a completely natural process which takes place during spring. They cast their antlers once their testosterone levels drop. They will begin to re-grow quite quickly and the new antlers will be covered in a furry skin called velvet. The antlers will be in velvet until until August/September when the deer will rub their antlers clean to reveal the harder bony antler beneath, just in time for the rut! In the wild they’d need their antlers to fight for dominance during the rut, not here though – they each have their own group of hinds!
As the weather brightens up the calves and hinds have been poking their noses out of the roundhouse. They will very soon be released into the deer parks. In preparation Neve has been harrowing the grassland to aerate it, this helps to stimulate the growth and makes the fresh growth healthier. It also takes out any moss that might be growing and flattens the mole hills.
Reared here on the farm, professionally butchered & packaged for us by local butchers and labelled here, we deliver direct to your door in our veni-van across Lincolnshire, freshly frozen venison is also available for delivery nationwide!
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