Sep 2, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
“Border!”…that’s the shout we’ve heard many hundreds of times over the past fifteen odd years, whenever a Border Terrier is spotted. It was from way back then, that Wendy and I fell in love with those wiry haired bundles of mischief. I had promised back when the kids...
Aug 26, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
The excitement around here has been building over recent weeks, with the long awaited Highland calves now overdue. We weren’t quite sure when we would hear the patter of tiny hooves, but just knew the nine week window in which to expect them. For the last 6 weeks I...
Aug 19, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
Don’t you just hate to see bullying going on. For the last few weeks I have been witnessing it a lot around the farm in one way or another and I don’t like it one bit. A couple of years ago, Stacey, one of our goats had a kid, whom we called Bambi. Life was sweet and...
Aug 12, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
From almost the beginning of this journey we decided that we wanted to bring members of the public onto Long Meadow Farm to share what we had with them even when early on we really didn’t know what we would be offering here at all. Although we had ideas and far too...
Aug 5, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
A few months ago when Queenie the last of our original pet hens passed away, she left behind her a best friend. Now this best friend had lived with her from being just days old and spent most of the hours in every day following her around the farmyard. They were most...
Jul 29, 2017 | Living The Dream (Yorkshire Post)
It’s been an interesting week, one way or another and not because our calves were born, because we’re still waiting patiently on that score. To explain I need just for a moment, to take you back to before the summer began, the 23rd May to be exact. Picture the scene,...
