Farmer Jake's Blog

February 2011 - Posts

• Orchard Planting

  Phase 1 of our Orchard Restoration has begun! After a very hectic couple of weeks organising, planning and re-planning we have finally planted a few orchard trees. For this first year we have chosen some 'Off The Shelf' varieties grown in Worcestershire... Posted Feb 28 2011, 03:45 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Orchards [Edit Tags]

• Our Very Own Lambing Live - 17th April

  The first lambs arrived just in time for the visit from Year 6 children of Wychall school on the 15th of February, (see last blog). So far we have had a slow start to the lambing with 6 ewes giving birth since the predicted start date of Valentines day... Posted Feb 19 2011, 07:54 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Lambing Live [Edit Tags]

• Wychall School Visit For The Day

  Today was the first visit of the year to Overbury by Wychall Primary School from Birmingham. The first visit had to be cancelled due to the bad weather in November so it was a very excited group of year 6's that arrived just after 10 this morning... Posted Feb 15 2011, 09:52 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Oilseed Rape, Wychall School, Education, Scarecrow, Lambing Live [Edit Tags]

• An Old RELIC Puts in an Appearance

  In the 1970's Dutch Elm Disease killed millions of Elm Trees across the country. Overbury was no exception with many trees succumbing to the disease. We have a field called 'Elm Piece' which once hosted many many hedgerow Elm trees, now there... Posted Feb 08 2011, 08:03 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Kemerton Conservation Trust, Dutch Elm Disease, RELIC, Elm Trees, Conservation [Edit Tags]