started this morning with a good old fashioned fry up and an energiser game to get the blood pumping.
excursions were planned to a number of farming enterprises around Herefordshire England (close to the boarder of Wales )
First stop was Hopes of Longtown. e met with proprietor Christina Hope.Hopes is an independent, family run village store and post office.located at the foot of the black mountains, it offers a wide range of speciality and regional produce for local residence and passing tourists. Christina gave good insight into the history of the store and the local demographic that use the store.
Next up we visited Whites Haywood Farm Restaurant.This is a licences farmhouse restaurant with accommodation run by Pauline and Philip Goodwin. The Restaurant is a 400 year old barn which has a homely ambience and is tastefully decorated with hand painted pictures from various local artists.
white Haywood farm is set on 190 acres and is the number one source of income for the Goodwin Family.They rear their own Beef and Sheep for use in their lunches, dinners and speciality dishes in the restaurant, after enjoying the goodwins fantastic hospitality and beautifully presented lunch we headed for our next port of call.
After lunch we made our way to lower Blakemere Farm in rural
Herefordshire and to the the farm of phill and Heather Gorringe and they enterprise called Wiggly Wigglers which supports self sufficiency and natural gardening through the mail order supply of some 900 products ranging from goats socks made in Herefordshire and English grow flower bouquets to the infamous can-o-worms composter. They have recently started another company called . The Great British Florist.
Tonight we are meeting The Young Farmers of Herefordshire and will be participating in various activities.
that's it from me for the moment.
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