22/03/2023
Farm News; Signs of Spring! There are signs of spring appearing all over the farm and the biggest and most exciting sign is lambs! Today Lily, one of our Herdwick ewes lambed our first lambs of the year and had two lovely little lambs. These are her first lambs, she lambed outside like all of our ewes and then is having a few days inside with them as they get strong and we can monitor them for any problems.
Other signs of spring are:
Sowing seeds, this week we sowed grass and wildflower seeds in our meadow field
Wild plum blossom, wild plums are one of the first fruit trees to flower
Forced rhubarb, rhubarb has come back to life after a dormant winter and putting it under a cover encourages it to grow tall, pale and sweet
Spring bulbs
And the polytunnel doors are wide open during a sunny day and we are working without coats outside!
