This is a special club for men who may have had a land based career, who appreciate the outdoors, but whose contact with the countryside is now limited through health or location. Members can decide what to do, be as active as personal ability allows in a farm environment, chew the cud with other members, [...]
One of our regular Farm Helpers and his family are participating in Marlow’s Annual Santa Fun Run to kindly fundraise for Road Farm Countryways facility improvements. Such energetic commitment is fantastic and deserves keen support so please do sponsor them. KW is 21 years old, first started coming to the farm back in October 2015 [...]
Massive thanks to the Rothschild Foundation for enabling us to install a beautiful kitchen in the former sheep Dairy Barn. This means we can do Field-to Fork cookery with our vulnerable young adults and encourage them to taste new things, even master some simple cooking techniques, all steps towards greater independence. We’re just finishing the [...]
Peachcroft Farm kindly donated some young turkey poults in July, which spent their first month in the stable. They are absolutely lovely birds, make a glorious vocabulary of noises and are incredibly steady and calm, not to mention vastly grown in 4 months! They’ll be kept beyond Christmas for enjoyment, education and egg laying purposes. [...]
Our regular Farm Helpers get fully involved here – do visit our Facebook page for more photos. We all made Kung Fu Crowfighter; a Scarecrow for the Lindengate Social and Therapeutic Horticultural Centre Summer competition and although it didn’t win, it’s now doing a fabulous job in the wheat field! The lads from Talkback have [...]
We’re so grateful to some very special contributions towards our Wheels to Explore Project to buy an All-Terrain Wheel-chair for use on the Farm and locally. Prestwood Area Community Transport kindly donated £2000, with a further £170 raised by a raffle which took place at their annual Afternoon Tea event for local people who rely [...]
The donkeys enjoyed their annual visit to Bartletts Care Home and delighted residents by going inside to the brand new lounge area; thankfully no tea trolleys were knocked over or “deposits” made! We provided Archery and Mini Crossbow Target shooting at our local wonderful Lee Flower Show (introduced by Arthur Liberty in 1892). Wendy gave [...]
Many thanks to the 100 people who helped us enjoy a wonderful barn dance and raise over £800. We danced to the Wick Trimmers band and revelled in the glorious singing of the generous and lovely Isla St Clair – what a fabulous voice! Special thanks to The Cock and Rabbit at the Lee, to [...]
This weekend is our Saturday evening fund-raising Barn Dance and also Open Farm Sunday afternoon. Last week the Bucks Roving Artists had their annual visit to the farm in glorious sunshine and a painting from the day was kindly framed and donated by one of the Artists. We'll auction this over the weekend with bids [...]
Join us on National Open Farm Sunday afternoon: 11th June 1.30-4.30 pm at Road Farm, to discover the world of farming, how we support our wildlife and provide care farming opportunities. Free entry to enjoy walks and talks, with some fundraising activities including refreshments and archery. Please see our Open Farm Sunday 2017 Poster for more information.
