Half Acre Farm

18/12/2024

Two Red Kites over the farm this afternoon 💕 also buzzards and a kestrel 👍🏻

17/12/2024

We have a fresh handmade wreath available to collect from the farm. This is the demonstration wreath made by Sarah during Saturday’s wreath workshop.

The wreath is made using locally grown foliage, locally grown dried flowers and locally gathered pinecones 💕

15/12/2024

And that’s a wrap for Christmas 2024 🥳

Thank you again to everyone who joined us at yesterday’s wreath making workshop at The Elm Tree at Elmton 🎄

You all made such gorgeous wreaths 👏

That’s it for wreath making this season, but please do ‘like’ and ‘follow’ our accounts if you are interested in hearing about our other workshops and events in 2025.

Don’t forget to share photos of your wreaths below 👇🏻

15/12/2024

Are there any local groups running Charity wreath making courses? If so, we have some bags of evergreen foliage to gift (conifer, pine, holly and eucalyptus) 💕🎄

Message this page if you think you could use this for charity/community benefit.

07/12/2024

Thank you again to everyone who joined us for this week’s wreath making workshop at The Elm Tree at Elmton 🎄

Don’t forget to share photos of your wreaths below 👇🏻

02/12/2024

Notice to all customers who have booked onto our Wreath Making Workshops on the 7th Dec and 14th Dec ! ! ! ! !

Please check your emails and make sure you reply to confirm any dietary requirements for all members of your group.

You can also message us on Facebook messenger to confirm if that is easier - but please confirm the date of your booking and the name that you used to book your tickets if co firming via messenger.

Unfortunately, if ticket holders haven’t confirmed dietary requirements prior to the date of the workshop you will be allocated a “regular” meal which could contain meat, fish, dairy, gluten etc. etc. so it is important for you to let us know.

We need to give the venue plenty of notice, so ticket holders have until noon on the Wednesday before their workshop date to confirm.

Eventbrite does ask you to confirm this when booking but no body ever does 🤣🫣

Thank you

02/12/2024

One of the local charities that we support The Kitchen will once again be cooking and delivering low-cost, freshly prepared Christmas meals to our more vulnerable local residents this Christmas.

The charity are asking for monetary donations this year instead of donations of ingredients, so please do help out if you can 💕

The Kitchen charity team also provide free training throughout the year in things like meal preparation, budgeting and how to use slow cookers etc. which any local residents can sign up to, so give their page a follow if this is something you would be interested in having a go at.

This year we're preparing Christmas dinner for 24 local residents and we'd like to also give them all a small gift of chocolates. In addition we'll deliver a "Boxing Day" lunch just before NYE. If anyone would like to donate to our Christmas Dinner fundraiser please PayPal to [email protected] or message the page for bank details. (We do normally ask for donations of food but logistics wise this will be easier to manage, I hope you understand).

30/11/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s first Festive Wreath Making Workshop at The Elm Tree at Elmton - your wreaths were all beautiful and we can’t wait to see photos of them on display 😊

30/11/2024

It’s almost time for the first wreath making workshop of the season 🎄

As always, we have tried to source all of our materials as locally as possible, and below is a list of where our materials came from…

• Eucalyptus (Half Acre Farm)
• Conifer (Half Acre Farm)
• Holly (Killamarsh)
• Nordman Fir (Scotland)*
• Dried Flowers (Half Acre Farm)
• Pinecones (Whitwell)

* Target for 2025 is to plant our own. In the mean time we will be looking for other local growers or perhaps team up with a local cut tree retailer.

27/11/2024

One place left on Saturday 7th December - £50+ booking fee. Workshop includes Afternoon Tea.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natural-wreath-making-saturday-7th-december-tickets-1010370173387?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

22/11/2024

Notice to all customers who have booked onto our Wreath Making Workshops on the 30th Nov, 7th Dec and 14th Dec.

Please check your emails and make sure you reply to confirm any dietary requirements for all members of your group.

You can also message us on Facebook messenger to confirm if that is easier - but please confirm the date of your booking and the name that you used to book your tickets.

Unfortunately, if ticket holders haven’t confirmed dietary requirements prior to the date of the workshop you will be allocated a “regular” meal which could contain meat, fish, dairy, gluten etc. etc. so it is important for you to let us know.

We need to give the venue plenty of notice, so ticket holders have until noon on the Wednesday before their workshop date to confirm.

19/11/2024

What a difference 24 hours makes 😄❄️🌷

The PYO Tulips row is half way done, just 48 more crates to go!

No planting today though 🥶 brrrrrr

19/11/2024

Mansfield Road (Oxcroft) this morning (7am)

17/11/2024

This was too brilliant not to share! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

13/11/2024

A few more tulip crates planted up today for our PYO Tulips row - that’s 34 crates done and 60 to go! Phew!

Lovely sunshine today and the Red Kite overhead, although the chickens were not fond of the Red Kite 😄

08/11/2024

And so begins the mammoth task of planting up the PYO tulips 😄 slow and steady wins the race right?…

14 crates down, 80 crates to go!

Remember, our tulip bulbs are planted very close together because they are grown for cut flowers as an ‘annual’ crop - if you are planting tulips in your garden given them a bit more room to grow and spread out 😉👍🏻

21/10/2024

Today we welcomed fellow members of Flowers From The Farm (East Midlands branch) for a tour of our plot followed by an in-depth presentation on all things Tulips 😄🌷🌷🌷

Thank you to everybody who joined us and I hope we have encouraged you to grow more tulips this coming spring!