September 13, 2021
Log concept was simple but persuasive
A business venture that was originally set up to keep a property company’s staff busy during quiet times has proved so successful that it is now being offered as a franchise.
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September 13, 2021
Spacious and well-equipped site
We are hoping customers will join us at the open day to see what we now have to offer here in Hampshire.
September 13, 2021
Farming and camping
This month Nigel Akehurst visits small-scale poultry farmers J A Keen & Son at Etherley Farm, a 165-acre National Trust tenanted farm situated at the foot of Leith Hill, an area of outstanding natural beauty.…
August 16, 2021
Two combines for the price of a service
An Aldington farmer produces the original invoice, revealing that in April 1962 the family business paid around £5,500 – including an ‘out-of-season discount’ – for not one, but two, Matadors.
August 16, 2021
Turning a corner after TB setback
This month Nigel Akehurst visits Hook and Son to meet father and son team Phil and Steve Hook, organic dairy and raw milk producers located at Longleys Farm in Hailsham, East Sussex.
July 19, 2021
The cherry on the cake
Despite having been known and respected in the UK for more than ten years, Chilean fruit growers FGA (Fruit Growers Alianza) lacked one thing – English cherries.
July 19, 2021
Protecting cherries with polytunnels
This month Nigel Akehurst visits award-winning family farm business Piper Cherries in Loose, Kent, to meet father and daughter team Brian Piper and Rachel Sands.
April 26, 2021
Another busy year for top buying group
The pandemic may have made the past year more complicated for Southern Farmers, one of the South East’s leading agricultural buying groups, but it certainly didn’t make it any less busy.
April 26, 2021
Another busy year for top buying group
The pandemic may have made the past year more complicated for Southern Farmers, one of the South East’s leading agricultural buying groups, but it certainly didn’t make it any less busy.
April 26, 2021
Liquid milk turned to gold
This month Nigel Akehurst visits the Blunt family at Greenacres Farm in Golden Cross, East Sussex to find out more about their thriving dairy goat and cheese business.
April 26, 2021
Liquid milk turned to gold
This month Nigel Akehurst visits the Blunt family at Greenacres Farm in Golden Cross, East Sussex to find out more about their thriving dairy goat and cheese business.
