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Latest News - updated 27th January Prices frozen for 2012Book early for the Easter weekend - 6th-9th April On the Farm Another hard standing in the making. By popular demand the slope on pitch 2 will disappear for ever. It had been affectionately described by one of our regular visitors as - "Perfectly level, just so long as you have one leg longer than the other"  The first sign of Spring Below a sizeable congregation followed a group of Young Farmers carrying a horse drawn plough and a milk churn into Newark Parish Church to mark Plough Sunday on 8th January. The former Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, the Very Rev. Dr John Moses is pictured blessing the plough and milk churn. Plough Sunday marks the start of the farming cycle. In Medieval times a communal plough was often kept in the church and as there was little work for ploughmen after Christmas they would take the plough round to landowners and beg for money. It was believed that threats were made to plough up gardens if no money was forthcoming. January is a fairly quiet month on the farm: hedge cutting, ditch cleaning and ploughing any fields that have not been sown with winter wheat. |
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