Guided Farm Tours from Tibbs!
Very excited to be launching monthly guided farm walks at Tibbs 😊 Open to all, entirely free, no bookings just come along and we’ll explore different aspects of the farm.
We kick off this Sunday leaving from the cafe at 10am.
Clean and decent footwear is essential!
Farm tractor and trailer tours continue today.
Leaving approximately every 30 mins the aim is to provide a real insight into the goings on on our farm. From growing hops now towering 14ft into the air to our traditional Romney sheep flock with lambs at foot and our 70 year old Bramley apple orchard. Tickets are available to buy from the marquee fruit stall, £4 adults and £2 children, and tours will take place both Saturday and Sunday.
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Happy Sunday from the bramley munchin’ 🐷
Can’t beat a good bramley apple, the pigs eat most things, but bramleys are right up there as a favourite of theirs. Come and say hello to them if you’re about, they love company 🐖
🍴 Cafe 9-4
🍳 breakfast/brunch 9-12
🥙 lunch 12-3
🍰 ☕️ cake & coffee
🥾 farm trails
📸 and views
🎄🎄Christmas trees 🎄🎄
We have lots of Christmas trees freshly cut from our plantations as well as…
Pick Your Own Christmas tree. You choose, we cut. Bear in mind we do need at least a day before picking up, we can’t cut on demand there and then!
Our cafe serves homemade food made from scratch, grab and go snacks and cakes and good coffee. We’re open 8:30-4 Tuesday to Sunday.
A few people commented on the sock lambs roaming about today 🐑
A sock lamb is the term we use for orphans, which if we can’t find an adoptive mother for, have to be hand reared. Some of you will have met these guys through the summer, they pretty much just maraud where they like eating what they like up at Tibbs. Plums it turned out to be were their favourites.
They’re really tame 🙄
Piglet Hide and seek
Guess who’s just arrived in town/Tibbs 🐽 🐖
5 little piglets, that’s who!
They’re just settling in with tons of rooting and plants to munch on but they like a bit of fuss so if you fancy a visit they’ll be keen to see some faces 😉
On the fruit front, Strawberries and Gooseberries are probably just over a week away from picking and it’s looking as though it could be a very good strawberry crop judging by the amount of flower 🤞 we’ll let you know when we have a confirmed date!
Lastly, some very exciting news to come in the next few days, a project several years in the works finally coming to fruition, so keep your eyes peeled 👀
**Bank holiday update**
Firstly, here’s a clumsy slow mo bee making the most of the Tayberry flowers. 🐝
Our cafe will be open Saturday 10-4 as usual. We’ll be closed Monday.
Sunday is the big one! We’re very humbled to be hosting the indomitable Simon Aylett as he sets off on a 4,500 mile coastal bike ride around the UK whilst towing essentially a caravan! All in aid of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. He’ll be launching off from Tibbs at 9:30am. For our part we’ll be serving proper bacon baps and good coffee from 8:30am ready for the send off! Come along and show your support it’s going to be quite epic.
To read more about his story and also if you fancy donating to his cause:
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SimonAylett/1
The ewes are on the cusp of lambing now and one of the main ‘lookering’ jobs to do each day is checking for mislaid sheep. It sounds amusing, tortoise-esque even, but if we don’t turn them up quickly enough there’s a very good chance they’ll die.
Opportune predators don’t need too many incentives to move in on easy prey, crows, being particularly gruesome peck at their eyes.
So if you see a stranded sheep flailing away, legs in the air, the trick is to simply roll them over and ensure they get their balance back. You might just save a life👌
Sheep are on their way back home for lambing 🐑
During the winter most of our sheep head out to ‘winter keep’ to graze pastures on other farms. This allows our pastures a chance to rest before the rich new spring grass growth arrives to coincide with lambing time when the ewes need plenty of nutritious food to raise their lambs.
We’re still a few weeks away from lambing yet but the return of sheep home is a sure sign that spring isn’t too far behind, hopefully! 😊 🐑
When you see a friend... only to realise it’s not your friend... 😬
Scratchy escaped today and was having a jaunt around the farm. He’s back with his brothers now, thank you to those who helped corral him back to his pen, he’s a sucker for food. 😊
It’s been a busy day today but our next variety of strawberry, Florence, has just started, so there’s lots to pick! More fruits are ripening by the day now with blackcurrants and redcurrants also ready to pick! Raspberries are just around the corner - next week we reckon.
