Summer on Buckmoorend Farm!

On Sunday 11th June we opened our farm for the national Open Farm Sunday event, the first time since pre-pandemic 2019! Despite the heatwave (hard to imagine now!) we had a fantastic turnout and are hugely grateful to everyone who came to support us to learn more about farming and what goes on behind the scenes here at Buckmoorend.

We had our lambs, piglets & calves out to see and were able to welcome a couple of our local resident Chalkshire Alpacas and Pathway Ponies. Our farm vets and members of the rural crime policing team were also on hand to engage with people throughout the day. In our haybarn, families enjoyed our farm-themed arts & crafts, facepainting and haybale maze leading into our farmyard where Farmer Dan Hares and Farmer Antony Pearce were the double act, with a backdrop of farm machinery, for some engaging talks on the arable side of farming. Outside our farm shop & kitchen some of our wonderful local producers hosted stalls to showcase their delicious produce all crafted within a few miles. The day was a great success and we can’t wait to host again on Sunday 9th June 2024. Hope to see you there!

 

Later in July we had a wonderful morning hosting Great Kimble St. Nicholas’ Kids Church Service in our haybarn. The church community effort to put this together was fabulous and the song of Great Kimble School Choir was heart warming to hear as it spread out across the farm. We hope to support this again in future.

We also have some exciting news to announce for our farm shop…after 7 years of using a fabulous off-site butcher to cut our home reared pork, lamb & beef we have secured our own butchers who will work behind the farm shop & kitchen in our new Buckmoorend Butchery Box! We are super excited to bring this craftmanship on-site which will allow greater flexibility for our customers and help to close the circle from our farm to your fork. Come and visit!

 

Here on the farm, we are holding out for this rain to stop so we can crack on with harvesting. Hopefully as you read this the sun will be shining bright and the combine will be merrily harvesting its way through the crops. This year’s weather has meant for a frustrating time in the mind of the arable farmer. Any sun dances appreciated!