There has been quite a lot happening this past month (February) here at Middle Coombe:
We have just commissioned a massive wood boiler/burner to replace 90% of the gas and oil use at Middle Coombe Farm, a massive dream come true for us, (see below for pictures of completion).
We have completed building one storage barn in the woodland and the second drying barn we hope to complete next month, in order to commence our sustainable logs business for supplying to our local community.
We have made a stone pathway with rails starting at the pond and bringing you up to the middle road track on the way to the oak tree, to make it safer for all to walk.
This month we are resurfacing the middle track which the 4-wheel drive uses to bring guests up to the oak tree, and we have also cleared out trees around the oak tree to make wooden benches for seating instead of using hay bales.
The barn itself has had lots of work done regarding wind drafting, having erected the biggest curtains ever over the doors, these can be tied back if it is not windy, and we have doubled up all the sheeps wool which we use to insulate between the thatch and where it meets the cob walls, together with replacing the small windows with draft proofing material.
We are in the top scoring of 40 out of 400 members of The Green Business Tourism Scheme, and have been nominated for a Goldstar, AND are in the final group of 10!
I (Angela) am completing my Business Excellence Course this March and Tim is a very happy man stoking the new wood burner, which he’s named “BB”!!
The Boiler Room
The Fuel in the Boiler Room