The Blog

Harry at Eastleach Downs Organic Farm cuddles a piglet

As 2025 rolls in…

It’s (another) new year – well actually it’s March already, but in an effort to keep up to date –here goes! After eighteen months with us Elly has moved on

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…and another year goes by!

It’s all change again at Eastleach Downs. We have new help on the farm in the form of Elly who joined us in September after 10 years ofworking with milking

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Farmer Sam by grain storage at Eastleach Downs Organic Farm

A Year On

Shamefully, it’s over a year since I attempted a blog post at Eastleach Downs. A lot has changed in that time, but some of the best things are still the

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Sows eating hay bales

A Day in the Life

Our post this month is written by Kier Kemp (known to us as Koo) who has been working with us since May. Helen has asked me to do a blog

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Bailer being towed through field

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!”

Today we finished making silage for the pigs to feed over the coming winter. This is fermented grass and clover which is baled and preserved by excluding the air. It

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Group of saddleback sows and their piglets

Will it ever stop raining?!

I can’t believe that less than a month ago we were leaving a hose dripping slowly in the yard so that the House Martins could collect the wet soil they

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Saddleback pig facing camera

Changing of the Seasons…

As I write, I have just finished pulling all the remaining water pipe from the pig field we started on exactly a year ago. We’ve been enjoying some drier weather

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Photo of roast pork joint and potatoes

Looking to the Year Ahead

Well, it’s 2021 and the last year seems to have flown by. We recognise how fortunate we are, being able to continue to work during the crisis and being largely

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Sam Wade looks over Eastleach Downs Organic Farm crops

Celebrations!.. Sort of.

This week we ‘celebrated’ our 29th wedding anniversary. For me, the day was spent on the JCB telehandler, bucketing spring barley from a heap in the yard over the wooden

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