Home Farm

Description

STOCK
396 ewes
115 hinds, stags, calves
75 fattening pigs (outdoor reared))

CROPS
1104 acres cereals
148 acres grassland
100 acres oil seed rape
100 acres sugar beet
60 acres linseed
80 acres woodland
58 acres set-aside, including:
40 acres industrial rape
10 acres willow (game cover)
4 acres strawberries
6 acres maize

OTHER
25-acre riding course
Fishing Lake
Maize maze

LABOUR
Brian Aldridge (manager and relief)
Adam Macy (deputy)
Andy, Jeff (general workers)
Tom Archer, Jazzer (pigs)
Students and seasonal labour
William Grundy (gamekeeper)
Fly (sheepdog)

With 1,585 mainly arable acres, Home Farm is the largest in Ambridge and carries out contract farming for other local farms. As a partner with the Hassett Hills Meat Company, it raises and supplies high-quality lamb to butchers and caterers, selling its venison and strawberries at local farmers' markets. And in 2005 it trialled a new visitor attraction - a maize maze.