Tomorrow and Tuesday, Abi will be welcoming back St John’s College pupils to Tuppenny Barn for their annual visit. She will also be putting the finishing touches to her half term workshop on Tuesday 21st Feb where she will be getting the children to try out some woodland mapping, make...
I am sitting writing the weekly blog whilst Chantelle is doing the first of her 2 workshops today on fish filleting. I am hoping to listen in to some of this afternoon’s session as this is a skill I could do with knowing a little more about. Having fresh fish...
You will have noticed that we have had the contractors in last week to widen the main entrance. This was a Highways condition of our original planning permission when we applied to build the education centre. It will be another gate width with a second metal gate, a duplicate of...
Good evening all, I’m sure you have all been quite cold over the last week with the temperatures below freezing at times. Surprisingly we welcome this type of weather for this time of year at Tuppenny, as it helps the orchard go into a proper dormancy period, hopefully for a...
The growing team and myself have been busy in discussions this past week about all the different projects we want to see come to fruition this year. We started on one last Wednesday with digging out all our 8 year old asparagus tubers to re-locate in order to make way...
During our first week back at work the growing team managed to dig out the two large kiwi plants that we have had in the polytunnel, one for 9 years and the other for 6. Despite having flowered on 3 consecutive years we have not had any kiwis to date....
A very Happy New Year! I do hope that you have all had a great Christmas and New Year break. This year we have a number of projects that we are hoping to develop as well as submitting our application to become a charity in the form of a Charitable...
On Saturday, Tuppenny Barn looked a bit like a florist arena with lots of lovely foliage, berries and similar seasonal adornments all ready for the Christmas wreath workshop I ran with Rosie. We had 16 students who all produced beautiful wreaths, all very different and unique. It is always lovely...
With just 4 bags to go before we close for Christmas I thought I would let those who have joined us during 2016 know what Tuppenny Barn does in the way of a Christmas bag. As we close over Christmas the final bag for 2016 is a ‘bumper’ version and...
That was a real storm last night! I haven’t been able to get to Tuppenny Barn today so am bracing myself for what we might find tomorrow morning. Just hoping that the gala tent has stayed put. For those of you that had a chilli plant from us in the...
