Tondra Thom's Blog (5)

Finally the moment of truth arrived as we opened the tearoom last weekend for the first time, a practice run lets call it for the grand reopening on the first weekend in April.  With minimal fanfare and advertising the moment arrived, the sun was out and the paragliders up in the air, we could not have asked for more.  Saturday was fairly…

We're getting close to opening the Caburn Tea Room here at Ranscombe Farm and we've been preparing this week with a good old deep clean of the lovely farmhouse kitchen.  The outdoor wooden tables and seating for the tearoom garden have been treated along with the plant tables and the arbour.  We've been visiting some local suppliers including a trip round Downsview dairy Farm to see the holstein cows, milk parlour and ice cream making.  Also popped in to Lewes Food…

Wow this last week has been a bit different!  Between us we've spent a few hours over the last two days dancing with sheep! Actually trying to round them up from all over Caburn but they had other ideas and had you been a passer by it would have looked like we were all dancing with them, waving and lunging about on the hillside like lunatics!  Here they are looking like butter wouldn't melt...…

A View from the Caburn 10^th Feb 2011

Last week Mat was mostly to be found shovelling mountains of compost and topsoil - fantastic, local, South Downs compost and topsoil made out of green waste collected from the local area and made lovingly by T J Composting.  Phil the farmer helped us to pick up 5 tonnes with the aid of his tractor and trailer, which then needed moving by hand into large bags for storage; go…

Sunday 30th January 2011

Hi all, this is the first in a series of blog entries we'll be submitting charting the trials and tribulations of life on a Sussex farm and running a small rural business or two.  

Had a great day today working at our greenhouse in Glynde potting on ferns, aubretia and various others on a beautiful…