The lucky people of Luddendenfoot have a new monthly market right on thier doorstep at the Luddendenfoot community centre, the Good Grub Club! Following on from Food Circle Huddersfield, Lyndsey of Company Bread in Halifax decided her local community needed a food market too. One with real food producers who are local, do things proper and can tell the people of Luddendenfoot all about it. If you've followed my content or story for any length of time you'll know how much I be

It used to be that I didn't order my first chicks of the season until late April to be sure most of our cold cold weather was out of the way. Baby chicks don't like the cold! This year I've moved to ordering them just a couple of weeks earlier as it seems to be that bit warmer these past couple of years. Regardless the chicks are put under heat lamps. When the chicks arrive they are just a day old, so tiny and so delicate. Fluffy little yellow balls. The chicks I'm talking ab

With the new lying flock arriving back in March I knew it wouldnt be long before they were full steam ahead with egg laying. My flock of 100 layers are now laying up to 78 eggs a day. That means that for the first time in a while eggs are back in stock in the online shop. You'll find them available for subscription in multiples of 6 for either weekly, fortnightly or monthly orders. Future Proofing Egg Supply... Long time customers will know securing a long term supply of eggs

This week a new cockerel came to live on the farm, he makes cockerel number two. The first being a Derbyshire Red Cap who didn't meet breed standards for a breeding group and the new addition, a Rhode Island Red who came from a lovely home but was perhaps just one cockerel too many after a recent hatch. I hadn't been on the lookout for another cockerel but as it happens he came at just the right time. I've been planning on having a go at hatching some chicks soon, as it turns

A New Flock Arrives After a fox attack last summer then missing out on a new flock of laying hens by 1 day!! (due to bird lockdown) I have been desperate for some more egg laying hens. Finally the other week I managed to source some from my original supplier. Hired the trailer, got up nice and early to do my daily chicken jobs, dropped off the dog, picked up the trailer, came back to fill it with chicken crates and just as I was turning onto my street, the clutch on my car

Hi friends, As always thank you for being here and following along this wild and often unpredictable farming journey. It's been a nice...

It's been 2 months since I did a farm update! First on the update is the laying hens. I took a bit of a risk with the new laying hens...

The land I farm sits just above the town of Holmfirth, close enough that the music from every festival and event can be heard from every...

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The first batch of 2024 chickens are very nearly ready and I'm hoping to butcher some in a couple of weeks’ time. I had originally...

I never planned to have a laying flock.. and look where we are now! I originally got a handful of laying hens back in 2022. Seen as...

I'm sure a few of you will have heard me talk about a potential move over the past few months and after some great consideration it's...

I got given a free celeriac the other week, after a quick google I decided upon celeriac soup. I made it for the second time this evening...

Feeding hens on a commercial scale often seems like quite a complex endeavour, especially for someone who was a chicken nutrition novice....