The lambing has now finished and we have been very lucky with the weather, staying dry with lots of lambs growing fast.  We are still having to supplementary feed the ewes with concentrates as the late cold spring up here in Northumberland has prevented the grass from growing at the normal rate.  We have only cut the lawn twice and the May and Crab Apple blossom is just starting to appear in the hedgerows.

I am now catching up on all the maintenance jobs around the farm.  Double fencing old hedgerows which we will plant up in the autumn creating more wildlife corridors linking the ponds with the woods.  This is different work to the butchery and the farmers' markets but I enjoy the change and my customers understand that we only have lamb when it is in season. 

The butchery has been thoroughly spring cleaned and we are waiting for a wet day to freshen up the paint ready for our start at the end of August.

We have been included in the Local Produce Offer booklet run with the Daily Telegraph throughout the summer which enables you to collect one form and five tokens giving you a £10 discount off your online order.  The orders have to be placed and the form and tokens posted to us before the deadline, we will dispatch your order of this season's new lamb as soon as it is ready in September.

We hope you have a good summer and now the weather has finally warmed up, hope it continues and then just gets better!