Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on Aug 3rd, 2012
The first draw of our Horton Park Organic lambs went away this week. These were from the single lambs. Ready at 16 weeks reared on just grass and milk, brilliant. Two will be delivered next week to The Farriers Arms at Mersham, and two to Rock Salt in Folkestone. Thank you for your orders. Next week we [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on May 4th, 2012
Time for a Spring update. Lambing is just about over with only a few stragglers left to lamb. Luckily the bulk of our outdoor lambing took place in early April when the weather was fine and dry. Because it is an outdoor lambing system we have not had an exact count but think that we have around 300 [...]
Posted in Farming, Life, Rural Life on Mar 23rd, 2012
Last Friday was a First Aid refresher for Sarah with St John’s Ambulance in Ashford. It is always good to keep skills up to date and meet up with other work place First Aiders and hear their stories. Two tragic stories have hit the news over last weekend. Firstly, a fatality on a farm. And [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Mar 14th, 2012
Yesterday the 3 Chefs from the Farriers Arms came to choose their next beef animal. They chose a well covered Aberdeen Angus cross South Devon heifer, as they want marbled meat. We could not photograph this animal yesterday but will take a picture of her before she goes to Anglo Dutch Meats at Charing in [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on Mar 8th, 2012
Today, we have updated the website with new pages detailing how to buy our delicious organic beef and lamb, and the plans for educational access visits for schools. Please click on the page tabs for more details. Thank you
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Mar 1st, 2012
Here at Horton Park Farm we feed organic red clover silage through the winter to the cattle in the shed. This silage is harvested and stored in the large clamps two or three times a year. Last year’s silage was made in two batches, June and October. Depending on the analysis of the crop we [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on Feb 15th, 2012
Today is our first beef day at HP. Our first Horton Park organic Aberdeen Angus beef will be delivered this morning to a local restaurant and pub. The beef has been hung for 28 days and will be absolutely delicious Rock Salt in Folkestone were first to order a side of beef (half an animal) [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on Feb 14th, 2012
This is the first video uploaded from phone to the blog. Obviously practice will pay off. More films to follow soon. The film stopped abruptly once the calf was delivered as Sarah had to stop filming to work on the calf to get him breathing. It took a good two minutes to get him going [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Feb 14th, 2012
The snow is shrinking, slowly, and the ice is extremely hazardous around the yard, especially while we were so busy at the weekend calving heifers. We had 4 heifers and a cow calves this weekend. Friday night started with a breech birth. We could see she was starting, but was a wee while away from [...]
Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on Feb 9th, 2012
Last week, before the snow we scanned the ewes to see how many lambs they are carrying. We are expecting some triplets, a good many twins and quite a few singles. This is normal considering our flock is made up of 50% young first time sheep known as shearlings and 50% much older sheep. The huge variety [...]