Cooking · Food & Drink

Comfort food (and a recipe for homemade granola)…

With the return of the very cold weather, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the kitchen. The bitter, easterly wind has been whipping through the farm for the past two days making any chores outside short-lived. I love being in the kitchen, but when I’m forced inside it is the best place to be.… Continue reading Comfort food (and a recipe for homemade granola)…

Cooking · Country life · Farm life · Harvest · Kitchen garden · Norfolk · Rhubarb

We still have snow…

Without wanting to fixate on the weather…we still have snow. While we can now leave the farm, the main road that reaches the drive is still under three feet of snow. Yes, we’ve had some milder weather but that snow is really clinging on in there. Life is relatively back to normal on the farm, the… Continue reading We still have snow…

Country life · Farm life · Norfolk · Snow

Our attempts to leave the farm…

What a different 48 hours makes. Yesterday we woke to a little more snow but the effect of the wind raging from the east overnight created exceptionally deep and vast snow drifts. We walked to the end of the drive – and it was a struggle. It really felt like we were living in a Big Brother… Continue reading Our attempts to leave the farm…