Year 6 News
Harvest Festival
10/10/2025 · No comments yet
This morning we had a packed Harvest Festival – Farfield style! We had apple juicing, honey harvest tasting and a ‘biggest pumpkin’ competition with ‘strong man’ William in Y2. We also had a new favourite song: Harvest time in the style of George Ezra! The harvest display was fantastic, almost all produce from our Read More
New additions to Farfield Farm
22/09/2025 · No comments yet
We are delighted to welcome Buzz, Bingo and Bluey to Farfield Farm. These three pygmy goats (not that small!) have moved in the top of the orchard. The PTA and SISK have helped us with some temporary fencing. Mr Nehaul has worked hard getting everything ready. Farm Club built an additional shelter and climbing Read More
Juicing time!
19/09/2025 · No comments yet
This week the juicer has come out to make good use of the bountiful apple harvest. Much of the windfall goes to the pigs, but windfall that is in reasonable condition makes great juice too. The juicer is also the best place for any ‘ugly’ fruit. It is quite a process: lots of chopping, Read More
Bountiful holiday farm sessions with families
26/08/2025 · No comments yet
We have had three lovely Farfield Farm sessions over the holidays with over 20 families helping with upkeep of the beds, feeding animals and harvesting fruit and vegetables. Everyone worked hard and enjoyed spending time together. We harvested so many tomatoes and plums in particular. There was some good cooking at home afterwards too. Read More
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22/11/2024 · Enter your password to view comments.
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Farm Club 30 Sept 2024
01/10/2024 · 1 comment
This was probably the wettest Farm Club ever! We kept working on the farm despite the rain, although we tried to stay in the polytunnels if we could. The children worked hard! After last week’s big harvest, there wasn’t much to pick. We did inside watering using collected rainwater, took redundant leaves off tomato Read More
First Farm Club of the season
23/09/2024 · No comments yet
We had our first farm club of the new school year: 17 keen gardeners from Y3-6. During this first session we toured the site and harvested what we could: figs, apples, tomatoes, courgette, cucumbers and a pepper (accidentally). We also harvested a butternut squash that had detached itself. We forgot to harvest grapes! (The Read More
Discovery in the orchard
13/09/2024 · No comments yet
Year 6 made an amazing discovery in a remote part of the orchard: a series of honeycombs attached to the branches of an apple tree. There weren’t many bees around about. Should we leave it there? Could we ‘harvest’ it? Could there be honey? We have emailed our beekeepers for advice.
Final Farm Club July 2024
15/08/2024 · No comments yet
On our final Farm Club in July, we tended to our crops in the top polytunnel ready for the holidays and we harvested new potatoes. We then made a potato salad to eat and take some home.
