The Posh Peasant: Oxfordshire Smallholders
About The Posh Peasant
We are a family. We grow fruit and veg, along organic , no-dig methods. We keep a few chickens, geese and ducks for eggs. Each year we aim to raise 2 or 3 lambs and rare breed pigs for meat, and we keep a hive of bees for honey. In spring 2020 we got our first Anglo Nubian diary goats. The food we raise is primarily for ourselves but we sometime sell our surpluses and we are interested in pop up cafes and markets.
Breaking News: next (really) local produce/art/craft/plants pop up market is Saturday 4th July 2020 10-12.30 @ 27 The Green North, Warborough
Do please bring bags and cash to buy (one or two of our more professional stalls may have card machines, but assume most dont).
Do bring any produce/plants/art/craft you have made to sell or swap. Do please mark prices on it, and if you have baked goods do please have a list of ingredients (or be prepared to tell everyone all about them whenever asked which may get tiring! ) We must be careful about allergies, apart from it being interesting to know what’s in things anyway!
We are looking forward to seeing you and selling/swapping and buying left, right and centre.
Its not easy with all this excitement to remember to social distance- but please do remember and remind each other!
Pop-up Cafes (before Covid Thwarted us!)
Pop up Soup Kitchens. Come along to the friendliest, tastiest lunch experience this side of Wallingford! Extremely local produce turned into your choice of two delicious soups with homemade rolls of local flour, plus tea or coffee and choice of homemade cake/sweat treat. Saving the planet has never tasted so good! Come prepared to share tables, and pass the butter. All for the unbelievably good value of £10 a head. x
Latest additions to the smallholding family that have kept us occupied and entertained through lockdown…
Hilarious Goat kids, Rose the sheep with twin lambs Curly and Whirly, first newly hatched chick on May Day, the two goats Dilly and Maggie and more ducks to increase the egg laying flock, and a revelation this spring: Rhubarb Vodka!
2019 saw us get our first bee hive, thanks to our good friend, Steve. And in spring 2020 we got our first Anglo Nubian diary goats, Dilly and Maggie, who very cleverly each produced a set of triplets each. Our first honey harvest and our first fresh raw goats milk pretty much coincided. Suddenly we truly live in a land of milk and honey!
We have planted 20 asparagus crowns in pride of place in our kitchen garden along with a new apricot, peach and nectarine in a new hot spot on our wall as our neighbours removed a big shady laurel. We do get peach leaf curl here, but we are trying to keep on top of it. Fingers crossed…
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