Farlands Smallholding Tours
Meet the livestock
Chickens, Turkeys, Bees (from a safe distance!)
See the large veg garden and fruit cage
Visit the orchard
Tour the tree projects
Fruit-tree grafting, hazel coppice, walnut trees, 100+ tree foraging hedge
Discuss the green energy systems
Wood pellet boiler, solar panels, non-mains water system
Tours
Highlights (1 hour) - £20
The full tour (2 hours) - £30
In the orchard are apples, a pear, a damson, a mirabelle, sweet chestnut and two hazel trees (a cob and a filbert). Outside the orchard we have also planted walnuts, and a cherry tree. We are experimenting with growing trees from seeds (including walnuts, hazel and elder) and also with fruit-tree grafting.
In 2013 we planted over a 100 trees in a foraging hedge - including hazel, blackthorn (for sloes, and an early source of nectar for bees), elder (for elderberries and elderflowers), crab apples, wild pears, a medlar, willow (an early source of pollen for bees), sea buckthorn and dogrose.
Farlands is set amongst woodland - there are over 250 trees, mainly sycamore and pine but also ash, horse chestnut, oak and silver birch. During the Winter of 2011/12 we planted 20 common hazel saplings, aiming to coppice them in the years to come.
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