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Thousands brave the rain for Easter Lambing
A huge thank you to everyone that came along to our Easter Lambing open days last week. We had over 2000 visitors over the two days, despite the terrible wet and windy weather
Orchard volunteers dig big!
An intrepid band of orchard volunteers turned out in force yesterday to take part in the Farm’s Big Dig event. The Big Dig is a London-wide event, organised by Capital Growth. The Forty Hall Farm Orchard is a registered Capital Growth space and it’s thanks to their funding that we were able to buy our first trees for the orchard
A vision for our orchard
Following our successful orchard launch event in October, we held our first meeting of the newly formed Forty Hall Community Orchard on Sunday.
Over twenty local people came together to discuss plans for the Orchard. Spirits were high as the group discussed the opportunities that a new orchard presents for the community
Green shoots
Almost one month on and our heritage wheat trials are already proving to have mixed results.
Unfortunately, our first lot of sowing did not survive long. After almost a fortnight without rain, wet weather finally came and we waited eagerly with for our wheat to appear. And waited. And waited some more.
Exciting new wheat trial begins
We have been busy this week planting some rare heritage wheat varieties on the farm. The trial is being carried out in partnership with Brockwell Bake, a charity that gets people eating and thinking about better bread.
Heritage wheats are types of wheat that are no longer widely grown in the
Forty Hall Farm orchard afternoon
Would you like to grow your own fruit? Squeeze your own fruit juice? Make your own cider?
In the 1800s, there was an orchard on Forty Hall Farm, situated alongside Forty Hall’s walled garden. We think it’s time we started growing fruit on the farm again
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- The Big Jubilee Lunch
Monday 4 Jun 2012
- Farmers Market
Saturday 30 Jun 2012