Tree Nursery

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Tree Nursery Jessie and Eric have started a tree nursery. We won’t be selling millions of trees a year but instead are concentrating on three things: broadleaves with very local provenance, walnuts and soft fruit bushes. We have rotavated some of the paddock – something we try and do as little as possible. But it […]

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Content, pasture-fed cows

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Our Cows Our livestock operation has come on leaps and bounds since we bought our first 5 cows from Stroud Community Agriculture in March 2022. The Cows and the pasture Depending on the time of year the total number of cattle in our herd fluctuates between 36 to 48. We have a mixed herd of […]

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Trees in Fields

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Agroforestry Agroforestry – putting trees in fields, or forestry in agriculture – is seeing a swell of public interest but is, in fact, an age-old approach to mixed farming. Whether it is cows seeking shade under trees or chickens scraping around apple trees, there have been many forms of tee+field in the past and all […]

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Hammonds Farmhouse

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Hammonds Farmhouse We’re always happy to welcome guests to the farmhouse at Hammonds Farm through Airbnb. Built in the 1800s and set in the wonderful Cotswold countryside, our eight-bedroom country farmhouse sleeps 16 and enjoys sweeping views over the beautiful Stroud valleys, fields and woodland surrounding the farm. It also has a large dining and […]

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Our market garden

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12 acres of potential We’ve dedicated 12 acres of Hammonds Farm to our market garden. That is a lot, and we won’t be working it all to start with! We have 20 beds of annuals using Zerodig principles as well as some more Zerodig beds for perennials. At the beginning of our 2023 season we […]

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