events
In celebration of the Berkshire pig we recently hosted a tour of the farm followed by a long lunch created by chef Vince Velletri, featuring our special free range rare breed pork. Eightly people filled our shearing shed to feast on porcetta, special Italian tarts filled with pork offal, pig's trotters in a soup, our own SBF bangers (sausages for those not raised in the UK), glazed whole ham, chorizo and not forgetting the beautiful home made cakes. A spendid day was had by all, see photos!
On Sunday 22 November we hosted a fun day of recycling and art - saving the environment artfully was the theme for the day held in conjunction with Earth Solutions, a subgroup of the Avon Valley Environmental Society. Instead off sending our pile of the usual farm junk (old fencing material, sheet metal, amongst other stuff) to land fill we commissioned a professional sculpter to create a piece of art for the farm. Kerrie Argent from Lake Grace, specialises in recycled materials in her art and she created a flower garden from sheets of old tin.
There was a demonstration workshop on making a solar oven out of scrap materials and another on making a worm farm from old polystyrene boxes. Adrian Price, a renowned recycling guru, gave a talk and demonstrated how many useful items can be made from 'junk'.
The smaller guests were invited to construct and paint a Bunyip put together by an artist, Yvonne, from York and tasting of farm produce were available before three short films were shown including one from our daughter which recently won a Media Review Award-we will put a link to it for those who are interested-which was mainly shot on location on the farm.
Photographs from the day are posted below.
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