Newbold Grounds

04/05/2024

Endurance horse riding event today around our farm and surrounding area

12/03/2024

I planted these wild primroses ten years ago as tiny plug plants. They are doing well despite the crazy rain filling the ancient ponds fuller than I’ve ever seen.

24/01/2024

Happy birthday! An early present from the latest storm. This balloon has been loitering at the top of a tree out of reach for weeks. Finally my favourite dog walk is litter free!

20/01/2024

Under the hazel the first aconite! And second and third found when I got right under the bush!

17/01/2024

Brrr I wasn’t feeling the love for getting out for a walk today. Glad to see my first snowdrop and I enjoyed crunching some ice in the puddles.

02/01/2024

14/12/2023

We have an overload of super mini turkeys! 3.5kg to 4kg £45 of deliciousness. www.newboldturkeys.co.uk

27/11/2023

Roll up roll up - it’s turkey time! www.newboldturkeys.co.uk

19/11/2023

We love Mick’s Venison especially the loin for special occasions and the mince for midweek!

One of our new dishes. Based entirely round this season. Loin of Truly Wild Venison, Wild Mushroom Ketchup, roasted Celeriac & a sauce made from the venison trim & port 🍄❤️

Absolutely love the produce this time of year. 😍

Mick is an expert in all things deer, he works really hard at what he does & produces some beautiful products, take a look at his page to see for yourself. He’s based in the local village of Kilsby

www.exploretock.com/thesheafinn

16/11/2023

Smug Mr Tippytoes who scares my big dog out of the lounge

08/10/2023

West Highgate cemetery tour was a wowzer. From an angel on a cloud, a lion for a Menagerist, a catacomb with coffins in various states of disrepair to a dog called Lion belonging to an illegal bare knuckle fighter whose cortège was honoured by 100,000. Surprisingly when compared to Marx who had just 17 graveside. It’s been a designed tourist attraction since it’s inception and was more interesting by an excellent volunteer guide who had huge enthusiasm for the subject. Other surprises included the former owner of Dunkin’ doughnuts Goldhammer had a massive 2017 mausoleum showing death can be glorified even now if you have enough dough (reportedly cost millions!). Beautiful stonework - I liked angels best, lots of stunning and incredible detail crammed into a urban hillside in London! Even an Egyptian themed area that proved difficult to sell to god fearing Victorians! And of course Marx who weirdly had fresh bananas left on his grave. And a lane of mausoleums that strangely made me think of beach huts. A brilliant and random suggestion for a bimble thanks Pip!

19/09/2023

Happy sister

12/09/2023

Babycham eating brambles carefully

29/08/2023

Eating what you’ve grown, eating breakfast with alpacas with nieces, eating shortbread raw and baked. There was also flapjack and blackcurrant compote.. I’m not food centric at all..

27/08/2023

Celebrating small wins today after a tricky day yesterday when a much needed auger broke and can’t be fixed til Tuesday earliest. Thankfully I’d just cut a batch of flapjack which when administered with a pint of tea calmed Farmer Tom. This harvest has felt like the hardest in my 20+ years and we are not finished yet. So I’m focusing on the little things that make me happy

13/08/2023

Sunflowers galore at Kislingbury Sunnies and Spooks. I loved it, made me feel sunny despite the weather! A lovely welcome and expert tips on conditioning the sunflowers which you get to take home - 3 per person. An unexpected bonus! Thank you Caroline and team. The wildflowers were glorious too. The cake eaters thought my choc chip banana cake was terrible so mostly had to have second slices just to check! And we finished the day with a homegrown turkey pie - a team effort with Anna helping decorate! Tom btw is recovering (day4) from an altercation with the car boot corner that Ruben closed unexpectedly. Grateful for my first aid skills as always. He is a good patient so far.

23/07/2023

Find of the day! These and my 1st & 2nd wild fresh blackberries of the year

13/07/2023

03/07/2023

Total surprise this evening! We have a baby in the paddock we weren’t expecting! Well done Champers and Arlo! The cria (baby alpaca) is feeding and seems bonded well with its mother. We thought Champers was infertile old and far bigger than Arlo so this would never happen.. keep your fingers crossed for a dry night for them

12/06/2023

How I love the smell after thunder and rain! How happy the air feels. How refreshed the plants look. I’m also mighty glad not to have to water the new turf lawn at the project for a few days too.

19/05/2023

When food matches clothes

18/05/2023

Unstable but kinda cute pottery project complete and a step closer on-site with 400m2 of turf down. What a green transformation. A first for us on the farm - instant perfect grass! Suddenly there is no rain in the forecast, you can thank us for that. And I’m rather pleased with the clash of colours joyfulness around the terracotta dogs Heather gave us. Matchy matchy seems nearly impossible in my world so best to embrace the good doers and not worry hey!

09/05/2023

Tom hacked my wisteria with a farm worker last autumn and as it was already done I didn’t cry. Turns out it loves the rough treatment, zoom in do! Tippy helped putting the flags away. Our water feature Tom and team completed now has Water Crowsfoot a sign of clean water and we couldn’t be more proud. At least that and the wild garlic like the rain. Wild garlic and cheese scones called. I’ve planted two trees on the occasion of the Coronation of CR3 and have rather over done it. The cat again helped and Henry banged in posts for me. Rain rain go away..

07/05/2023

Happy Coronation! To me the day after party was the best, sunshine, cake alfresco and community. Four layers of cream Victoria sponge Garry made to perfection, what a man! Staverton looked so pretty with people and flags! Being farmers we don’t exactly belong to any one village. This church is where we were married so it’s alway going to be special in front of it celebrating. And we made Coronation turkey of course!

03/05/2023

My prettiest turkey pie so far, took longer to make than eat. Wasn’t sure how to decorate it without a Christmas theme! A perk of being married to a turkey farmer (Newbold Turkeys) is leftover surplus turkeys fill our freezers

26/04/2023

Yay for enough rhubarb to give some away and cats for company. Rhubarb jelly to celebrate our nephew Oliver arriving from Oz. He last saw our house without stairs! Found the most interesting pretty camouflage butterfly as I was dead heading the daffodils. And then a second one. Hope they find each other and make more! Mickey my old boy is recovering from having 6 rotten teeth removed. And we managed to rotavate the mud that hopefully will be turfed soon. I got stressed yesterday and ate my lunch with the chickens. They certainly cheered me up as I shared my crusts with them. Mork the cockerel even tried a half hearted attack before I decided I prefer standing up with him about!

20/04/2023

It’s important to celebrate victories when they come. We are about to eat my first crop of home grown asparagus! Wild garlic is ready for picking and a clematis I grew from a seed is flowering. Rural bliss.

17/03/2023

I feel like rhubarb tonight! Yay! It may be small but it is early so I’m super grateful to have something homegrown for pudding tonight. farm

13/03/2023

Epic ridge walk made easier by blue skies, dried fruit, salty macadamia nuts (my new favourite food!) and great company! Pico do Areerio to Pico do Ruivo was spectacular scenery and vertical drops. Grateful to have crazy enough friends to share this with and a strong husband to carry the day pack!