Thank you Mike & Corine Porter for inviting me to your arable farm in Walpole. The family have farmed this land for over a hundred years. With today being world mental health day I have focused on a pastoral scene overlooking one of their beautiful spring fed ponds.
Monthly Archives: October 2019
“Chris and Biddy” YANA day 80 of 100
At Ditchingham Home farm with my cousin Chris and his black Labrador Biddy. I was out with them checking on the pheasant feeders.
“After the cows are milked” YANA day 79 of 100
Continuing on from yesterday we follow the progress of the milk from the Montbéliard cows. Graham the production manager and his team of 20 is seen here ladling the curds into the cheese moulds in the initial stages of making the baron Bigod cheese. Rather than explain the process here I thoroughly recommend the video …
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“My morning with some Montbéliarde cattle” YANA day 78 of 100
I spent the morning with the Crickmore family at Fen farm dairy at Flixton. The farm has been farmed by their family for 3 generation and has diversified into producing cheese from their milk. So in order to make their cheese they have a herd of Montbéliarde cow which produce a high fat, high protein …
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“Across the rainy sky” YANA day 77 of 100
What a day with over 3″ of rain over several hours. I had hoped to be watching the Suffolk horse ploughing championships, I am not sure if they went ahead but I decided to stay home. So today some Barnacle geese which I so often see flying out of the fields at this time of …
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