Category: Simon’s Blog

Simon’s News – October 2018 As we approach the end of October, our family Halloween Events are in full swing. Each year, the Becketts Farm witches open up their Pumpkin Parlour and Halloween Kitchen for pumpkin carving and spooky baking sessions. It’s lots of fun and I’d really recommend booking your child or grandchild a...

On the Farm this month we’ve drilled the winter wheat and plan to drill around 100 acres of beans later in October. I’ve enjoyed some delicious meals out this month, with the most memorable dish being this amazing soufflé. You will know from my previous blogs that I am a keen cook and as soufflé...

As in the hymn, ‘all is safely gathered in’. Our harvest this year has been easy with the weather, so we combined the last of the beans this week, just before the end of August. We’re still busy on the farms as the cycle starts once more with next years’ oil seed rape already planted...

This month it has been busy out on the Farm as we begin the harvesting which is happening much faster than usual, and there are no prizes for guessing the reason behind that… the weather! It seems we are always discussing it, but it really does play a vital part in what we do, and...

Farming is going very well this month and the dry weather is compensating for the wet weather and flooding that we had last month. As farmers we are all so aware of just how changeable the British weather can be, and we’re never quite happy with it either. In the nice weather I’ve been out...