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This Farming Life - September in Castlefarm


Jenny Young
Author: Jenny Young
August and September are the months when I supply organic fruit, vegetables and duck eggs to The BrookLodge Hotel for its annual harvest menu in The Strawberry Tree restaurant.
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This Farming Life - August at Castlefarm


Courgette at Castlefarm
Author: Jenny Young
We have been walking the farm on a weekly basis to manage our dairy herds grazing. The gorgeous warm July and its lack of rain means our organic grass is sparse. We have had to feed silage ground, earmarked for winter feed. Hopefully we will not have to buy in too much organic dairy feed this winter as a substitute.
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This Farming Life - July at Castlefarm


Jenny Young
Author: Jenny Young
So far the summer has been good to us dairy farmers at Castlefarm. The warm weather has meant lot of grass growth and we have managed to harvest our second cut of silage.
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This Farming Life - June at Castlefarm


Jenny Young
Author: Jenny Young
The Castlefarm garden is beginning to yield vegetables. Due to an especially busy spring calving this year sowing was delayed. However at last we are enjoying lettuce, courgettes and rocket. Cucumbers are appearing in the poytunnel as well as the first tomatoes.
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This Farming Life - May at Castlefarm


Courgette at Castlefarm
Author: Jenny Young
It's May and things are relatively settled at Castlefarm. With calving over, breeding season begins. This means six weeks of intensive AI to ensure suitable calves for easy calving next year and a good blood line for our future dairy herd.
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This Farming Life - Spring at Castlefarm


Seedlings
Author: Jenny Young
At this stage 80 of our cows have calved. We have 26 heifer (female) calves out on grass, although we still feed them milk twice a day. Spring has been difficult. The calves got a bug, which spread, from calf house to calf house. 50 sick calves is no laughing matter. Still the hardship of calving time is now nearly over.
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This Farming Life - Spring Calving at Castlefarm


Calving
Author: Jenny Young
After taking a couple of weeks off in January for holidays, I am back on the farm preparing for Spring calving. February 1st marks the official start to calving at Castlefarm. We will have 90 cows calving down, the majority within an 8 week period. This means keeping a close watch on the expectant mothers and making sure that every calf born drinks a feed of milk within an hour of being born.
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This Farming Life - A Winter Break for Castlefarm


Castle Farm in Snow
Author: Jenny Young
Today we dried off our spring herd of 81 cows. This will give them a 2 month break before they begin to calve. So no milking on Christmas Day at Castlefarm, yippee.
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This Farming Life - Foraging at Castlefarm


Rose Hip Syrup
Author: Jenny Young
With only four more of Castlefarm’s autumn herd to calve and most of our calves sold I feel like I can take a bit of a breather from the farm. Our cows are now indoors full time. They eat silage and sleep on straw.
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This Farming Life - The Farmer, the Kitchen and the Big Harvest Menu


Big Harvest
Author: Jenny Young
In the spring time, when farmers begin to sow vegetable seeds, they are thinking about the harvest ahead. Throughout the spring the plants are nurtured and, during the summer, the vegetable patch has to be safeguarded from weeds and pests. It’s hard work but we look forward to our produce.
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