tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63249936346792620182023-11-16T18:34:22.164+00:00Our Welsh FarmOur Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-56306017002135771062012-06-24T13:39:00.002+01:002012-06-24T13:39:19.524+01:00The Two Seater Toilet (Ty Bach)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hendre Ifan Goch Farm at Glynogwr had a toilet at the bottom of the garden that was flushed from a little stream running underneath, not unusual for farms but this one had 2 seats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The toilet was in need of some TLC and not having time to do this we asked the National Museum at St Fagans in 2008 if they would like it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having received a farmhouse as one of the original pieces in the 1952 from Llangennith in Gower which was rebuilt at St Fagans by 1955, they were donated the cowshed and calf cots in 2007. The outside toilet at the farmstead was a ruin so our toilet fills the place in the corner of the garden of Kenixton Farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were invited to the opening of these new buildings on the 20th of June 2012 and were delighted to see how it had been restored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.ourwelshfarm.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hendre Ifan Goch Farm</a></strong> was also the home to <strong>Lewis Hopkin</strong> (1708-1771)the Bard and preacher, his son <strong>Hopcyn Bach</strong> was a dwarf and his suit also is at St Fagans Museum.</span><br />
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<span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">exerted the greatest
influence on the literary life of </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Glamorgan</span></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> in that period. He was also the </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">bardic
teacher</span></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> of <a href="http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-EVAN-EDW-1716.html"><span class="forename"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Edward</span></span><span class="name"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span class="surname"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Evan</span></span><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>and <a href="http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-EDW-1747.html"><span class="name"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Iolo Morganwg</span></span></a>
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that he was well-acquainted with </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">English</span></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> literature of the 18th cent.; he had </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Latin</span></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> and </span></span><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">French</span></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">
books in his library. He was buried at </span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Llandyfodwg</span></span></st1:placename><span class="name"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></span></span></st1:place><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: #3e4640; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-EDW-1747.html"><span class="name"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iolo Morganwg</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;">
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and the Prince of Wales. According to a letter written by John Browning in
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We now have over 900 lambs and the shed is almost empty (still 3 to go!!) <br />
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We have had a good crop of lambs and the only challenge was the wet bank holiday Monday when we had to bring our new lambs and ewes back into the shed to dry off and warm up.<br />
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We have some characters in the pet lambs my 2 favourite are Woolly and Balaclava boy:<br />
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Woolly wasn't strong enough to follow his mother and sister out to the field so we gave him some TLC and his mother came back to visit each day to check we were looking after him, after a week she decided he was better off with his friends in the shed. <br />
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We have planted approx 150 native trees this year hoping they will all catch.<br />
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This is Farmhouse breakfast week and we are involved in breakfast with a local school on Wednesday preparing home made granola bars with British rolled oats and Glamorganshire Honey a great recipe for those pumpkin seeds you kept from your Halloween pumpkins. Recipe and pictures to follow :-)<br />
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We also are having a free breakfast community event with workshops on homemade bread,poached egg prepared in the microwave and armchair exercises to keep you moving the "keep it shaking" butter making experiment will be at both events if you want more details visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/171080619663969/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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National Farmhouse Breakfast detail at <a href="http://www.shakeupyourwakeup.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Shake up your Wake up</strong></a> <br />
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Sheep are now all in the shed and scanned we changed our scanning system this year and the sheep are scanned upright and is finished in a few hours.<br />
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Will be updating the website with the new video shortly<br />
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Results 33 sets of triplets, 323 sets of twins , 179 singles expected seems we will have a busy time!<br />
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Also another visit from our friends the students from Maison Familiale Rurale in March.</div>
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<br />Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-21735839780122861252011-11-01T08:48:00.001+00:002011-11-01T17:39:50.981+00:00Sausage and Mash Club on tourIt is British sausage week and we are celebrating with our bangers before bonfire night.<br />
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Check out the recipes on the <a href="http://www.lovepork.co.uk/search">Love Pork Website</a> <br />
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<strong>Last years activities led to an extra 572 ton of sausage eaten during sausage week!</strong></div>
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Let us know what your favourite recipe is or where your favourite Sausage & Mash is served in Bridgend we would like to know what is happening.<br />
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<strong>Leave comments at </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/TheRealFoodBoxandShop"><strong>The Real Food Box</strong></a><strong> or </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Feastival"><strong>Feastival</strong></a></div>
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<strong><span style="color: orange;">The Bridgend Sausage and Mash club are on tour this week to sample some local sausage by </span></strong><a href="http://www.welshmeat.com/"><strong><span style="color: orange;">Maddocks Kembrey Butchers</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: orange;"> in Maesteg being served with mustard mash and red onion gravy at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Feastival#!/pages/Creation-Cafe/140885245990148">Creation Cafe</a> Blaengarw.</span></strong><br />
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Creation Cafe is a great place to source local and delicious food at reasonable prices, <strong>but booking needed for Thursday's sausage & mash extravaganza</strong>. Please ring Ruth or Nicola to book your place 01656 353919. the Cafe is situated in Katie Street Blaengarw.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">Happy British Sausage Week make sure they are British!</span></strong></div>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-4001778373503510012011-10-24T15:09:00.001+01:002011-10-24T15:10:44.658+01:00Launch of the song Bee PowerI was invited to the launch of the Bee Power song, the winning song about the plight of the Bumble Bee by Dolau primary school and Bridgend College students in the SMILE competition.<br />
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They have launched it to be downloaded to try and get this into the charts it is being well received and featuring in the media if you wish to see the making of the song visit their Facebook Page <br />
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<a href="http://www.sizeofwales.org.uk/">http://www.sizeofwales.org.uk/</a>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-21046450598855142552011-09-20T15:35:00.000+01:002011-09-20T15:35:02.137+01:00<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON4/twitbutton.swf" width="120" height="120"><param name="movie" value="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON4/twitbutton.swf"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="menu" value="false"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="flashvars" value="username=ourwelshfarm"></param><a href="http://www.gamblinginsider.ca" title="up your game at Gambling Insider">up your game at Gambling Insider</a><embed src="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON4/twitbutton.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="120" height="120" menu="false" wmode="transparent" flashvars="username=ourwelshfarm"></embed></object>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-26005403604553457482011-06-10T15:38:00.000+01:002011-06-10T15:38:33.801+01:00SMILE 2011 & Open Farm Sunday<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SMILE (Students Motivate Innovative Learning through Enterprise.) 2011</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2011 celebration day was upon us .Clare George is an IT Lecturer at Bridgend College and has received the ‘Most Enterprising Teacher Award 2009' approached me to help with a planting workshop for the day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theme this year was <span style="color: #f1c232;">"the plight of the Bumble Bee"</span> and details of the winning song by <strong>Dolau Primary</strong> will be published shortly it will be available to download from i tunes and we are hoping for a no 1 it is brilliant :-) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched the Video Logs and songs which were produced with the students of Bridgend college a great time was had by all by the looks of things.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were 7 workshops and we were all kept busy in the sunshine at Kenfig Nature reserve. We made recycled newspaper pots in which we put some salad leaf seeds to grow, the pupils were very knowledgable about bees and their importance in life.This was a great opportunity to tell the pupils and teachers about <strong><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Open Farm Sunday</span></strong> and I gave them the details of the farms in their areas this weekend.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more details of Farms in your area contact <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.farmsunday.org/ofs/visit/findfarm.eb">Open Farm Sunday</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to Litchard Primary who made the winning <span style="color: #ffd966;">Bumble Bee</span> design that was built by the apprentices in the engineering Department of Bridgend college. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also congratulations to Llanilltyd Fawr Primary that won the video log it was buzzing with entertainment </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Opening speech was made by <strong>James Fletcher</strong>, a climate change champion in 2008 from Pengam , Caerphilly . He is currently studying a BA in Politics and International Relations at Reading University. An inspirational speaker and we will watch this space for more news..............</div><div style="text-align: center;">a clip below from 2008</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-36116966715145878562011-02-10T14:38:00.008+00:002011-02-10T15:39:44.089+00:00February- Sheep in waiting! Open Farm Sunday is coming!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Welsh Farm is getting prepared for lambing lots happening in the next few months. Spring is on its way all sheep have been scanned and results good despite the cruel winter we have had.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lambing will begin at the end of March and we will be lucky to have the expertise of a Bristol Uni Vet student learning from both sides will be a great experience.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am now Welsh coordinator for Open Farm Sunday an initiative of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming). </span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the success of "Care for your Food We Do!" the theme this year is " Discover Life on British Farms" If you wish to find out where you can visit a farm on Open Farm Sunday June 12th 2011 please visit the website </span><a href="http://www.farmsunday.org/ofs/visit/findfarm.eb"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open Farm Sunday</span></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> .</span><br />
</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #38761d;">If</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #38761d;">you</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">are a farmer and would like to get involved or just thinking about it please attend one of the</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">workshops which are being held across the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">UK</place></country-region> in March/April.</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Please have a look </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.farmsunday.org/ofs/open/workshops.eb"><span style="color: orange;">OFS workshops. </span></a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Attending a workshop will give you all the hints and tips you need to host a success event and</span> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">could make up your mind!</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36NhVMkgpiunD5BAvILBPzSjtMIv9YroT7-l2cHtQVYttezkISUg95U_eZPZcFtHvrtoT3p2W0vRUq0GiR5oOnj0mvWnRkCBNIZ8Mp1WEvyBELE4TYjsa8hU8V3J6Uch51GnbJDPkBjU/s1600/ofs_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36NhVMkgpiunD5BAvILBPzSjtMIv9YroT7-l2cHtQVYttezkISUg95U_eZPZcFtHvrtoT3p2W0vRUq0GiR5oOnj0mvWnRkCBNIZ8Mp1WEvyBELE4TYjsa8hU8V3J6Uch51GnbJDPkBjU/s1600/ofs_logo.png" /></a></div>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-48518097051770873972011-01-11T13:53:00.000+00:002011-01-11T13:53:31.282+00:00Our Welsh Farm is back!!<div style="text-align: center;">Huge apologies to those that have missed us over the holidays but website is now back on line unfortunately no webcams at the moment as the electrics controlling the streaming have not dried out and been tested yet. we are working on it but please enjoy the rest of the site.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hope everyone has a great Christmas</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Our Welsh Farm<br />
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Dave and his friends are eagerly awaiting Santa to help him with his deliveries.......<br />
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Bought in some barley to supplement or haylage and silage. <br />
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Log in to <a href="http://www.ourwelshfarm/">http://www.ourwelshfarm/</a> to see the webcam activity in the shed and the ice on the lake.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shakeupyourwakeup.com/">Shake up to Wake up</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">lots of recipes, information and ways to get involved on the website.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>facts taken from website:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Send your children to school on a full tummy and get a glistening school report!</span></div><br />
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Research done by the Cardiff University School of Psychology, led by Professor Andrew Smith has shown that eating breakfast helps children function better in school than those who skip the first meal of the day. The results revealed children who start the day with cereal are:<br />
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•11 percent less emotionally distressed<br />
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•17 percent less anxious<br />
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•10 percent less likely to suffer memory and attention span difficulties, than those that have no breakfast<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shakeupyourwakeup.com/">Farmhouse Breakfast Week</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pictures from a previous event school children with fruit kebabs and cheese and bacon toasties and a local Rugby player Dale McIntosh (former international player)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The bacon was -<strong>British</strong> ,the cheese- <strong>Welsh</strong> and the Milk from the <strong>local </strong>dairy <strong>Ty Tanglwyst</strong> (silver award winner in the "<strong>True Taste 2010</strong>")Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-92105152981249039062010-10-15T13:28:00.000+01:002010-10-15T13:28:01.741+01:00"What do you know about great British Bangers?"<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>British Sausage Week November 1st - 7th</u></strong><br />
great website for all info: <a href="http://www.lovepork.co.uk/blog/article/sausage-week-2010">British Sausage Week</a><br />
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For those strictly dancing fans Craig Revel Horwood will be dancing around the country as celebrity British sausage judge.<br />
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We have had some venison sausages made and they tasted delicious with hardly any food miles attached.<br />
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John Lee (Chairman of FACE) set the scene for the day and we had a welcome and introduction by Malcolm Crabtree (Managing Director of Leckford) who gave us an insight into the afternoon's trip. <br />
The estate is a worker's democracy it was purchased my John Spedan Lewis of Oxford Street London in 1928 and formed into a Ltd company in 1929 and now forms an important part of Waitrose. <br />
<a href="http://www.waitrose.com/ourcompany/leckfordestate/leckfordfarm.aspx">The Leckford Farm:</a><br />
<ul><li>produces 30 ton of mushrooms per week </li>
<li>230 acres of fruit but the harvest this year is less than last year being approx 800 ton not 1200 ton </li>
<li>Organic processing dairy unit </li>
<li>Winter Wheat milled into Leckford Flour </li>
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<li>Free range Egg Flocks </li>
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</ul>We were then given a talk by Amanda Dance Event and Education Manger followed by Mary Noyce Consultant to the <a href="https://www.ssatrust.org.uk/specialism/ruraldimension/pages/default.aspx">Rural dimension.</a><br />
Meg Hart FACE regional co ordinator gave us highlights of the work in her area in the last 12 months and this was followed by Bill Graham on FACE's acheivements this year.<br />
John Lee summed up the presentations and asked Sir Don Curry to give the closing remarks which gave us a positive outlook for the future of farm education and working with partners to acheive this.<br />
After a superb lunch from the farm produce we climbed aboard the tractor and trailers for a very informative tour of the Farm and <a href="http://www.longstockpark.co.uk/index.htm">Longstock Park Water Gardens</a>Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-30568197641387081892010-09-30T13:13:00.000+01:002010-09-30T13:13:05.520+01:00We won Innovative learning with Bayer / FACE awards 2010"Farmers on tour" we were invited to the Tower of London for lunch in the New Armouries Banqueting suite it is called "new" as it originated in the 17th and 18th centuries please see <a href="http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/stories.aspx">The Tower of London</a> for more details <br />
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We won the <a href="http://www.bayercropscience.co.uk/content.output/246/2125/Food%20and%20Environment/Food%20and%20Environment/FACE%20Awards%202010.mspx">BAYER/FACE</a> Innovative learning award and were presented by Jim Paice Minister for Agriculture and Gary Richardson from the <a href="http://www.countrysidefoundation.org.uk/">Countryside Foundation for Education</a><br />
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We all took our family holiday to the Royal Welsh (that's us and the children we didn't take the sheep!). Lots to see including the world Golden Shears competition and new Food Hall.<br />
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I was lucky to be runner up in the NFU/Natwest Welsh Rural Champion Awards.<br />
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We managed to get our Harvest in though the rain in August did mean it was a little here and a little there so silage and wrapped bale silage this year no Hay :-( <br />
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We were also nominated for the Bayer/FACE innovative learning awards story to follow shortly.......<br />
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The Red deer have increased we bought in 5 young hinds so hopefully lots of deer calves next year.<br />
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Claire is an IT Lecturer at Bridgend College and has received the ‘Most Enterprising Teacher Award 2009' from the education team at Enterprise UK, the campaign to increase entrepreneurial behavior in the UK.<br />
Claire has worked with 5 primary schools which entered into the SMILE (Students Motivate Innovative Learning via Enterprise’) project and has plenty of more ideas for further projects.Claire with her fellow colleagues in the construction academy from Bridgend college are going to build a 10 green bottle recycled greenhouse in a local primary school annually.<br />
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Claire approached me "Our Welsh Farm" to come along and help the pupils plant some seeds ready for the greenhouse. I attended the school and with the pupils made some recycled plant pots from newspaper and the children planted salad leaf seeds these they were going to take home.<br />
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We then used the bottoms of the 2litre bottles that had been discarded from the build and planted these up we had a talk about the properties of wool and put some raw fleece in the bottom of the seed planters as an experiment we are hoping that by watering daily the moisture will last in the pot by absorption in the fleece to save the caretaker watering over the weekends we will let you know the outcomes......<br />
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Below are the photos we took and along with the seeds and weeds club hoping to have a project with pumpkins in the autumn.<br />
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Thanks to Llangewydd Primary for letting me visit with Freddie and Pillow, we all had a great time although Freddie was a little restless. Both lambs love their new names and certificates have been sent to school.<br />
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There was a vote in each class and the most popular won.<br />
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The school had the theme "keen to be green" so we discussed the properties of wool and it's uses.<br />
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I have visited Bryncethin and Abercerdin Schools and hope they are following us on the website. The children in Abercerdin were excited to hear their own voices as they helped me with the "hear some facts" section.Our Welsh Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037679369891732016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324993634679262018.post-91358432018892677062010-04-07T12:00:00.000+01:002010-04-07T12:00:18.332+01:00Lambing Live at Our Welsh FarmJust over half way on this set of ewes 200 left to lamb, do join us on <a href="http://www.ourwelshfarm.co.uk/">http://www.ourwelshfarm.co.uk/</a> and log in to see our webcams in the shed.<br />
We have Steven on works experience from Bridgend College and our children are on Easter holidays so all hands on deck.<br />
The weather has been a bit extreme - sun, rain , sleet and snow all in 2 hours....................<br />
It is brightening and warming now and the fields have turned from yellow to lush green and the ewes and lambs are loving it.<br />
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Lambing is happening quickly, Sunday morning was not peaceful as 15 sets of twins caused a bit of confusion with their mothers this morning but all sorted now <br />
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