A Week on the Estate: Farm 24, Bowl Project & Lakeside Camping
We hope you find you hale and hearty this week. As we crack on with the harvest, the weather has been gusty and showery but generally benign. A period of feisty Atlantic weather marked by strong south-westerlies is set to be displaced by a warmer and calmer south-easterly system. The weekend will give us a temperature range of 24C-13C with winds gusting to 32mph, but by midweek the temperature will have risen to 28C-15C and the wind-speed will have halved.
On Thursday 7th August, we were proud to support 24 Hours in Farming, an online event showcasing the hard work and care that goes into feeding the nation. We were also delighted to welcome Scott Dalton from BBC Radio Lincolnshire to the Estate. Click HERE to listen again and find out how he got on with our hard-working Estate team and our highly vocal cockerels.
As regular readers will know, this season’s warmth and lack of rainfall has presented farmers across the UK with a real challenge and we salute their hard work and adaptability. Paul shared a pic of our Blacksmith Black Wheat crop being harvested earlier than expected. Despite the tricky weather, he was pleased with the yield and quality. The next step is to apply Hagberg, protein and mycotoxin tests.
Speaking of this year’s unpredictable harvest, we’d like to offer our heartfelt thanks to our community’s lovely pea-pickers for helping us make the best of trying times. We called time on the pea-picking on Monday 4th August when it was clear that the peas were no longer at their best. We always have to defer to Mother Nature, and what remains of this leguminous, nitrate-fixing crop will nourish the land. To find out more about our impromptu pea-picking, click HERE.
Staying with the related themes of nutrition and good company, we’re planning to bring joy and wholesome meals to our wider community and we’d like YOU to help us.
HERE’S WHAT WE’RE DOING…
We’re creating a community where everyone is welcome to share a warm meal with dignity and respect. We’re calling it the South Ormsby Bowl Project.
There’s a bit too much food poverty and loneliness out there and we’d like to do our bit to tackle it.
We’ll start by bringing people together over a lunchtime bowl of delicious, warming food. From the mortar of shared happiness, we’ll build a community.
Right now, our very own Jacqui Rhodes is putting the finishing touches to a recipe for slow-cooked happiness! This simple, seasonal delight will be the South Ormsby Bowl. Initially, we’ll be using organic, British ingredients, locally sourced when possible. Our aim is to use our own produce.
In time, we plan to share the joy around our region, supplying food packages to volunteers running their own Bowl Clubs. Which is where you come in…
