The summer fruit picking will start in early June this year, with strawberries and gooseberries available to pick first. This is a later start than usual due to the chilly spring weather. The fruit will be ready whenever it chooses to be – traditional family farming here! No polytunnels to force the fruit ahead of […]
The fields are now closed for the year after a season quite unlike any since the family moved here 80 years ago. You’ve been brilliant at showing up, keeping to your bubbles, and picking those fields clean.
Did you spot the farm on CBeebies? Honu’s favourite activity is strawberry picking, who can blame him?! Catch it on iPlayer until 14 April. The TV show was filmed last summer. Only two months until the first strawberries will be ready again!
We’re delighted to receive the award for best website from a panel of experts at a Tastes of Anglia event today. It’s great when a labour of love is celebrated! Take a look around to check it out for yourself. We recommend: When we predict the fruit will be ready this season Plan your visit to the […]
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The pick your own summer fruit has finished for 2012 but you can still have your taste of summer! The farm shop opens daily, stocked with freshly frozen fruit and local produce. The farm keeps us busy throughout the winter, with pruning, planting and maintenance tasks – read our fruit grower’s diary for more information on […]
There doesn’t seem to be an end to this pluvial misery of a summer, so make the most of the occasional dry days respite and come and pick! There is a lot of lovely fruit on the field at the moment and the ground dries out quite easily. Strawberries We have an abundance of late variety […]
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The first raspberries on the earliest variety, Minerva, are ripe and available to pick. There is also a lot of fruit on the canes waiting to ripen and so the picking will get easier as time goes on.