We are very keen to enable our students to gain purposeful lives as adults, both by caring for this important little farm and by selling good quality products. Our aim is for them to be engaged in learning to make products that they enjoy and that others would like to buy. Gradually the range has extended, always with the emphasis on skill development and quality. We sell what they help to produce at our events:
Woodwork: bee houses, planters, bird houses, chopping boards, and spatulas
Rural craft: greetings cards, notelets, coasters, table mats, tea towels, mugs, beeswax candles
Plants: summer bedding, tomatoes, planters for Christmas, planters
Food: organic eggs, vegetables, cakes, jams, and jellies
Hand in hand with the growth of the student skills has been the development of open days and sales at the farm to fundraise. Currently we have a Christmas Fayre in November, a Plant Sale in May, and an Open Farm Day at midsummer. We are also offering popular, monthly ‘Tea Times Together’ when the students make and share tea and cakes with local interest groups such as the WI and Gardening Club.
We also sell at other outlets, local markets, and events such as Three Trees and Helen Browning’s at The Royal Oak.
