by Richard | May 22, 2020 | Farm Updates
It’s been a big week! The first batch of broilers has been slaughtered and packed, and it’s finally been warm enough to get the tomatoes out in the greenhouse. Egg production is getting going, the new chicks are growing well, salad crops are doing great...
by Richard | May 20, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Here at Ridgedale, we operate Europe’s cheapest approved slaughter facility. Today is the first slaughter of the year, and we’re going to try something new; weight-categorising the birds into five categories in the chiller in order to facilitate easeful packing. Tune...
by Richard | May 12, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates, No-Dig Market Gardening
It’s been a few years, but we finally have a flerd (cows and sheep together) again. It’s way easier to care for them as one group rather than two. The second batch of chicks has arrived, and we’re getting the slaughtery ready to cull the first batch...
by Richard | May 9, 2020 | Farm Updates
Glorious spring is here, and this video is a mishmash of fun and relaxing times as well as hard work from the past week. We’ve finally fixed the hot tub that was gifted to us by the digger-driver when we made the pond, and all I can say is; get one! Some of the...
by Richard | May 8, 2020 | No-Dig Market Gardening
Today we’re doing a test run of the Curly’s Planter Pro, which is available in Australia and the U.S. as an alternative to the Japanese Paperpot Transplanter, which was made 45 years ago. A paperpot transplanter radically cuts the time spent on transplanting, and...
