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Geese make hay while sun don’t shine

wtm-apprenticeWigborough Traditional Meats’ latest ‘occasional’ newsletter has now been released and shares tales of frustration borne on the back of weather too damp to make sileage, let alone hay.  While the grass grows it is under increasing threat from hungry geese and expanding rabbit populations.  Meantime, as time moves on so do young helpers – some finishing at college and moving on, others joining as part of their own education.

To read all about this and more visit the Garr House Farm website.

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Sun. silage, ‘toys-for-boys’ & concrete

wtm-muckspreader-1205Among others these are some of the many topics covered in Wigborough Traditional Meats’ periodic newsletter.  With the rainy start to spring the cattle made a late exit from their sheds putting a strain on silage supplies, there was a sad loss of a calf resulting in the exit of Bossy (the herds head cow), the colourful imagery of the “N.E. Essex Pigeon Squadron” potentially threatening crops if the growth regulators don’t get applied as well as the arrival of a new muckspreader!  To read all about this and more visit the Garr House Farm website.

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Rainbows, rain and lambing

Oh to be a duck…

Wigborough Traditional Meats occasional newsletter for early May has just been posted on their website and tells tales of chickens contemplating the advantages of duck-hood, lambs happy to frolic in the rain contrasting with those choosing to sty in shelter as well as all the multitudinous minutiae that make up farm life at Garr House Farm when facing the wettest April since we can’t recall when!

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