Monthly Archives: March 2016
Kensmyth Alpaca stall at the Corn Hall Cirencester
highs and lows of farming
weather over the last week has been challenging to say the least. thank goodness we invested in Field shelters that don’t blow over in gale force winds as some of our farming friends have done across the countryside nationally!
one of the benefits of the drainpipe off ground system we use to keep feed spread (so you can observe all livestock feeding and what amounts) and off the ground, is that they are also installed inside the field shelters taking very little room…
which whilst this shot was taken when sunny, the weather here was, um, interesting for frogs!
if you cannot read it we had 50 – 70mm of rain overnight !
Llama drama at Kensmyth
Kensmyth best kept secret…
Curly Coated Retrievers all over the world
Breakfast at Kensmyth with blackberries and welcome to Spring
Beautiful morning here at Kensmyth Alpaca farm. Having planted some 90 plus fruit trees when we first came in 2012, we are reaping the benefits of this already… but one of the beauties here are the established Blackberry yields which with a little effort and freezing can be enjoyed at any time…
a little cereal and a generous helping of handpicked, field grown fresh frozen blackberries to welcome Spring … not long before the 2016 cria are due too…but harrowing and fertilizing and spraying comes first and that is just the fields..
Narcissus – flower of the month for March
cria haltering and blue sky
guess where we are right now
well crazy busy is not the word as we have been zooming around taking Mitchell to University interviews. He has been offered the places he wanted which is fantastic news well done Mitchell – whilst the Alpaca have been cared for at home and enjoyed a brief sunny respite from the wet weather, see if you can guess where we have been…