The Husbandry School

The Husbandry School

The Husbandry School

thehusbandryschool

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Esme has been busy planting out over 40 different kinds of kale this week! 🌱.
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#kale #growyourown #sustainableliving #farm #husbandru #thehusbandryschool #plants #devonfarmers #devon #diy #landwork #farmlife #vegbox #growers #farmtotable

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We've been busy today making seed cakes for the hungry woodpeckers up on the hill today 🐦
This is a great 'stuck at home' DIY to do yourself or with little ones. Melt lard and seeds together and either set in cupcake tins or inside hollowed out orange peels and hang up for the birds to enjoy!
Use #thehusbandryschool to see your creations!

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Welcome to the world little one! 🐏 Our first lamb of this season was born today. Trying to think of a good topical name... Any suggestions?!

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Philip the goat wishing you a very happy Monday! 🐐
She (yes she!) is due to kid very soon and we can't wait to welcome her little ones up on the hill!

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Our nursery school curriculum now to include a tractor license! 🚜
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#thehusbandryschool #husbandry #tractor #devonfarmers #sustainablefarming #growyourown

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Prepping and planting our radish beds in the glorious sunshine 🌄
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#thehusbandryschool #husbandry #devonfarmers #sustainablefarming #raisedbeds #growyourown #volunteerdevon #radish #kitchengarden

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Wild garlic for wild times. 🌱
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Out on the breaches today picking as much garlic as possible for our wonderful staff and their families. .
Sending our thoughts and love out to everyone in these times of uncertainty.
#thehusbandryschool #husbandry #foraging #wildgarlic #diy

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Oak buds on a blue sky background. A natural masterpiece! ☀️🌳
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#oak #thehusbandryschool #husbandry #farming #sustainablefarming #oaktree

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Spot our growers planting out peas in the garden in this gorgeous weather 🌄
Let us know what youre using this spell of sunshine for! .
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#thehusbandryschool #husbandry #devon #sustainablefarming #diy #landscape #farming #garden #getinvolved #volunteer #greenfingers #volunteerdevon #activedevon

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If the weather won't do it, we will do it ourselves! 🌈
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Today we've been planting elderflower trees and making rainbows with our students.
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#husbandry #thehusbandryschool #farming #sustainablefarming #elderflower #rainbows

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Erin and Esme were out this week picking nettles for our lovely chefs to make something magical ☀️ Nettles are such an underated resource, we think they don't get the love they deserve.
This year we're running a course all about the glorious stinger! From nourishing herbal drinks to string and cord weaving, and dye work, spend a day up on the hill with us learning to make the most of the wonderful nettle.🍵
Link to our website in the bio! .
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#husbandry #thehusbadryschool #nettle #sustainablefarming #foraging #landwork #farming

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Another wonderful volunteer day on Saturday! Planting over 185 fruit, chestnut, hazel and spindle trees on 150 metres of bank, as part of our on going project to restore the hedges to the former glory, using the ancient Devon methods. 🌱
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We run volunteer days on the first Saturday of (almost) every month, doing all sorts of engaging and interesting projects around the land. If you would like to get involved in an upcoming event, head over to our website and let us know! 🤸
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#thehusbandryschool #volunteerdevon #sustainablefarming #landwork #husbandry #treeplanting #getinvolved

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Picking the first harvest of wild garlic this week to send out to our chefs.
Spring is finally breaking through the wind and the rain!🌱🌿
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#wildgarlic #foraging #sustainablefarming #thehusbandryschool #farming #husbandry #food #chef

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Grab your kites! We're set for another blustery few days up here. With record wind speeds last week reaching 106MPH!
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#husbandry #thehusbandryschool #wind #weather #rainbow #sustainablefarming #conciousliving #growyourown #devon #landscape

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It's time for celebration here on the hill and what better way to welcome in warmer weather than an incredible home oak smoked salmon! 🐟🌿
Pinned to a soaked board, sat over dill and lemons, then smoked over hot coals and oak chips in our brick pizza oven. 🔥🔥
What are your must have spring dishes? .
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#husbandry #produce #homegrown #sustainablefarming #salmon #food #familystyle #diy

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This rainy weather has got our growers huddled up in the poly tunnels looking after our 30+ varieties of heritage tomato and dreaming of warmer days! 🍅
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#husbandry #tomato #homegrown #farmlife #polytunnel #sustainablefarming

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We still have spaces available for our volunteer day on the Saturday 7th March! ☀️
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Everyone and anyone are welcome to join us, mucking in and learning about small-scale farming. Lunch included made with home grown produce. Come along and help us welcome in the spring! 🍃
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Contact us on 01626 821145 or email at info@husbandry.co.uk to let us know you'd like to get involved! .
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#volunteer #devon #freeevent #volunteerdevon #naturallyhealthy #activedevon
#husbandry #farm #smallscalefarming #sustainablefarming

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New pea sowings in drainage pipe, ready to slide out onto our carefully prepared beds for spring planting. Let’s hope the frost doesn’t come just as we set them free ❄️!
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#peas #peasowing #springpea #devonpea #devonveg #londonchef #londonchefs

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We were planting fruit bushes on Friday with students and volunteers in our new fruit garden; it will be full of jostaberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, red gooseberries and loganberries... to name just a few 😋!
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Soon enough a new fruit cage will be in place and our strawberry plants will be transplanted to the new site too. We look forward to seeing most of these fruit next year 🍓.
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#delicious #fruitgarden #fruitcage #devonfruit #fruitbushes #planting #plantingfruit #devon #londonchefs

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Our story medicine course on Sunday 8th March welcomes participants to prompt new pieces of writing that connect the writer through landscape, plants and places in the natural world. To enquire and challenge the questions of the heart, matters of health or decisions yet to unravel ✍️.
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Lucy will help you to consider the mighty elements, exhilarate your senses and pay attention to the smallest of details. You will also enjoy a nourishing lunchtime feast, including ingredients grown on the land here. Contact us on 01626 821145 or info@husbandry.co.uk for more details (or check the link in our bio!) 📞.
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#creativewriting @lucylepchani #devonlandscape #landscape #naturalwriting #writingcourse #devoncourses #learnsomethingnew

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