Sparham Hall Farm & Holiday Cottages

25/06/2024

The Royal Norfolk Show starts tomorrow and the weather looks like it’s going to hot!

There will be over 3000 animals to see, an amazing Grand Ring programme, 700 trade stands, never mind its Norfolk’s biggest food and drinks experience.

Tickets are cheaper if you get them inadvance. So if you are planning on going get them today!

Information on ticket prices and how to buy tickets for the Royal Norfolk Show, held at the Norfolk Showground.

08/06/2024

Just off to find my Norfolk Superhero, Tom, along with his partner Richard - The Savillsian Spares who are taking part in The Norfolk Superhero 2024 Challenge; this year raising money Norfolk Search & Rescue and The Burnham Overt Harbour Trust.
Such app timing giving this week, Ben I know you’ll be carrying Tom around for me!!

02/06/2024

Reepham Young Farmers Club Tractor Run in aid of the fab local charity YANA which aims to improve Mental Health in Agriculture and Rural Businesses in East Anglia

22/05/2024

On Monday myself and a bunch of amazing Women That Farm! went on a Biofluorescence Walk led by the incredible David Atthowe of Reveal Nature. We all discovered a whole new world! What an evening!

12/05/2024

20/04/2024

Wise Advice from a Farmer's Wife
(source unknown) 🌾🦘🐑

• Whenever you return a borrowed pie pan, make sure it's got a warm pie in it.

• There's no such thing as woman's work on a farm. There's just work. (See attached photo).

• Invite lots of folks to supper. You can always add more water to the soup.

•Make home a happy place for the children.

•Always keep a small light on in the kitchen window at night.

•If your man gets his truck stuck in the field, don't go in after him. Throw him a rope and pull him out with the tractor.

•It's a whole lot easier to get breakfast from a chicken than a pig.

•It's easy to clean an empty house, but hard to live in one.

•All children spill milk. Learn to smile and wipe it up.

•Homemade's always better'n store bought.

•A good neighbor always knows when to visit and when to leave.

•A city dog wants to run out the door, but a country dog stays on the porch 'cause he's not fenced-in.

•Nothin' gets the frustrations out better'n splittn' wood, working cattle, or driving the tractor.

•Enjoy doing your children's laundry. Some day they'll be gone.

•You'll never catch a runnin' chicken but if you throw seed around the back door you'll have a skillet full by supper.

•Visit old people who can't get out. Some day you'll be one.

•The softer you talk, the closer folks'll listen.

•The colder the outhouse, the warmer the bed.

11/04/2024

☔️ Day 365 or so it seems, of rain.

Everywhere is saturated. Crops haven’t been drilled. Lambs are struggling.

Tomorrow is a new day.

Look out for each other.

Pick up the phone.

Talk to someone.

Rural mental health matters.

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LEN'S LIGHT
Leicestershire & Rutland YFC
FCN Leicestershire & Rutland
NFU Online
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Guardian

04/03/2024

Very excitingly Sparham Hall Farm Cottages have been nominated for a Muddy Stilettos Award for the BEST BOUTIQUE STAY. We would love it if you would nominate us too! Just follow the link https://norfolk.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/nominate/

04/03/2024

A very lovely surprise to be one of the 12 best UK breaks in The Guardian yesterday and we absolutely recommend visiting Pensthorpe as it really does have something for everyone!

From blossom trails to bluebell woods, and foraging to farm stays, we’ve picked some of the finest seasonal getaways

06/01/2024

The meadows cannot take much more water. We are all desperately hoping for all in Lyng and others effected it doesn’t go up anymore but as of an hour ago it was still going up.

21/12/2023

Well done National Trust. Blickling Estate NT now even more accessible!!

Blickling Estate (National Trust), Norwich, is our latest registration and live on the official Changing Places toilets map: https://buff.ly/3RwLsrm

This CPT has been installed thanks to funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities programme.

Brilliant work, Blickling Estate NT!

05/12/2023

05/12/2023

Award winning 5 star gold self catering holiday cottages in the heart of Norfolk.

11/11/2023

Absolutely beautiful 🌺🚜

📷 Doodling Lucy

05/11/2023

What an amazing hour spent taking these from the farm

04/11/2023

Now the temperature has dipped, you'll be needing this! We've found the cosiest coffee spots for dialling up the autumn vibes over a pumpkin spice latte.

12/10/2023

Seriously powerful video by Norwich City FC.

09/10/2023

07/10/2023

Congratulations Guy!!

Norfolk pig farmer Guy King, of GSK Pigs, has been named the Pig Farmer of the Year at the 2023 Farmers Weekly Awards.

05/10/2023

02/10/2023

So important for all British family farms!

We're on a mission to make supermarkets get fair about farming, and protect the future of British food.

02/09/2023

Westgate Farm in Great Walsingham, Norfolk, has reopened its pick-your-own sunflower field for 2023.