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New look
We hope you like our ‘new look’ website which we have been progressively updating over the past few months. We will be continuing to revise and update the remainder of the site over the next little while, to complete the sheep yard repairsfresher look and more targeted information, hopefully making the site more user-friendly and helpful to you our customers. We now have a new FAQ section as well as the facility to subscribe to regular ‘Farmchat’ stock for sale and news updates. If you would like to give us feedback on our changes we’d be pleased to hear from you (brief and constructive comments only please).

Internship positions
Our exciting news for this summer is that we have available for the first time two internship positions on the farm. The interns (students) will be accommodated in our newly built farm office and farm workers cottage on the farm, and will receive extensive training and experience in the management of a pastoral organic farm and associated business, in return for their input into our work. These positions are expected to be revolving ones with spaces coming up on apainting the chicken house seasonal basis, so applications are invited at any time from interested applicants. Our initial places are open from late summer here (February 2010) for periods of 6 months or longer. Check further details and how to apply here >>>>

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For this coming spring (Oct 2009), depending on the workforce, we are hoping to be able to start up our popular one-day workshops on Organic Pastoral Management with other aspects like animal husbandry classes, so please keep checking back here or better still subscribe to our Farmchat updates for all the info straight into your inbox. We have lots of other exciting plans for 2010 for getting our customers and the wider community more involved in our work here, so to be in the know - Farmchat is the biz! Subscribe to our free Farmchat newsletter.

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