Barn Dance at Road Farm, Great Missenden: Saturday 10th June 2017, 6.30-10.30pm. Dancing to The Wick Trimmers + special guest Isla St Clair. Join us for a family evening of fun with sausage sizzle from our Saddleback pigs. Tickets £15 adult; £5 child (5-16); £40 family. Contact Wendy Gray 01494 862413. Low heeled shoes advised. [...]
May: We had visits from Great Missenden C of E Year 3 children, all 84 of them (plus teachers too) over two days, learning about farming, foraging and fires with links to Stone Age and Ancient Egypt topics! Lots of fun, regardless of variable weather. After they'd left, our Saddleback sow relaxed and had her piglets! [...]
April was busy as usual, the donkeys helped with the Palm Sunday Service at our local Catholic Church, then later in the month we hosted a Donkey Breed Society Training day. We're also delighted to welcome TalkBack on regular group visits to the farm.
We’ve raised over £11,500 already but still need around £50,000. This will allow us to re-roof, refloor and install Terrific Toilets with changing facility and an extra work area. This uses an existing elderly building. A BIG THANK YOU to all the wonderful individuals and organisations who have helped us so far including Sweet Charity, the [...]
We have a wonderful new website volunteer who is making sure our website news gets updated! Thank you Lorraine! We need more expert volunteer help for example with admin and fundraising, so please do contact us if you have a little time spare and live locally and love the reality of positive outcomes from Care [...]
The Poetry Please group from Wendover Free Church were so inspired by the Pretty field and its lovely view that a new banner has been made for the church in time for Lent and celebrating Easter. The banner includes the intricacies of flowers like pyramidal orchids, lady’s bedstraw, oxeye daisy and grasses along with butterflies [...]
Our second Carols in the Barn was enjoyed, with guest appearances from several 4 legged beasts. Proceeds from a raffle were sent to Shelterbox Charity which provides emergency tents and equipment to be shipped around the world when disaster strikes. We borrowed a demonstration shelterbox from local Rotary to show people, accompanied by mulled wine [...]
Kiteridge school in Wycombe continues to bring several young men here each week, and we’ve become a “continuity” point to help with those transferring between child and adult services, much to our delight. Wendy attended very helpful “Dementure Adventure” Training held at another Care Farm in Herts ; we hope to provide a special group [...]
Open Farm Sunday had around 250 visitors who enjoyed seeing the newly born piglets and meeting Nan and Etty our Golden Guernsey goats. We also held our first Providers Afternoon with cream tea refreshments! Our regular Farm Helpers kept coming over the summer holidays with a few extra people who are normally at school. We [...]
Great Missenden C of E School Yr 3 visited in February and to link with their Stone Age topic: we split into groups to be Farmers, Foragers and Flintstones (Fire-makers). Great visits, including sitting with cosy skins over laps and doing cave painting: full marks to the children and teachers for braving the cold. Lyndhurst [...]
