We had a lovely week or so in mid-February when the sun shone and the bees came out to play.

​It turned out to be something of a false dawn, with most of March being soggy soggy soggy! But in that brief window of sunshine I managed to capture our bees stretching their wings for the first time in 2019. These hives have been on the farm for decades and help make the honey we sell in the farm shop. We love our bees!

On the back of one of our chefs asking recently: "How do artichokes grow'... I thought I'd do a quick video to explain. I don't think Steven Steven Spielberg has anything to worry about, and if you suffer from sea-sickness you may need to close your eyes when I start walking... but other than that I hope you find this little film informative!

​There are subtitles if you can't hear what I'm saying...

Last summer we launched a review on the future of Kenyon Hall Farm. Within a week we'd had an overwhelming response: a whopping 875 replies, 10,000+ pieces of data and 30 pages of A4 filled with suggestions. It was so heartening to have so many people care about our little old farm! So it's only fair I put the time in to analyse what you've said and to share the findings.

This post will explain why we did a survey and three of the fundamental things we discovered - the Executive Summary. My next blog post(s) will go into specific details about the ideas for the future that we're going to run with to (hopefully) make the farm even better!

I've been staring at a blank screen for an hour now. If I don't start writing something soon, we'll be opening for Pumpkins 2019 before I've written about 2018!

I just don't know where to start. October was the busiest month ever at Kenyon Hall Farm. We grew more pumpkins, welcomed more visitors, sold more pumpkins, carved more pumpkins, wheeled more barrows and ate more chocolate apples than ever before. We smashed all our records - not just for a pumpkin season, but for any season. Since we started in 1978.

I can't let all that pass without comment. But after a month of relentless pumpkining and minimal sleep (I call it pumpkinsomina) my brain doesn't seem to fancy this final task: the write-up. So you'll be pleased to hear that I'll be keeping this brief! A quick look at how we did and a nod towards next year...