March, the month of change.

A lot is happening. We, The Coombe Farm Trust, with the help of our website manager Peter Morgan, have set up a new page on our website ‘Logs & Timber for sale’. So please, go and have a look at that, let us know of any changes you think we need to make, bombard us with questions and let us know what you think.

The sun is out, the daffodils are out, snowdrops have been out for a while now, in fact, come to think of it hares, foxes and other forms of wildlife have been spotted round about as well. Please take care whilst driving at this beautiful time of year, there are too many casualties on the road.

One of the barns here on the farm is an old threshing barn with massive doors either side so the wind could blow the winnowed chaff out the door leaving clean wheat behind. Then sometime in the eighteen hundreds a sophisticated twin screw cider press was installed. In those days agricultural labour was paid for largely in cider. Unfortunately parts of the barn’s roof and walls were allowed to collapse in the early nineteen forties, The walls were constructed from cob, a mixture of stone, clay and straw which is an excellent building material but no use if allowed to get wet. And the roof was thatched from local straw.