Turkey Orders

If you are interested in ordering one of our Christmas Turkeys you can either collect a form from the school reception or Farm Shop. You can also download this form and return it to Farm@redborne.com or via post to Redborne School Farm, Redborne Upper School, Flitwick Rd, Ampthill, Beds, MK45 2NU:

Onwards and Outwards...

Nothing remains static in either Education or Agriculture and of course at Redborne we are specialists in both. As such we are having a rearrange of our holdings which should see some exciting new endeavours over the coming months and years. We are currently in the process of moving our grazing land to just over 16 acres of what will become new pasture. With this we hope top deliver new lessons in grass management, produce fodder for the farm and for sale as well as, expanding our flock of sheep to include a range of valuable, rare and native UK sheep.

To this end we have already completed construction of the field shelters. Sticking to our ethos of using local or in this case traditional craftsmen / women we have completed the construction of two very large and bespoke field shelters with Pool Cottage Sectional buildings. Based in Shropshire they create hand built and finished buildings from ornamental chicken houses (Shaped from beach huts to gypsy caravans) to larger farm buildings such as field shelters like ours. All buildings are crafted in a small work shop, are highly engineered and made from very high grade timber. The joints and angles are even planed and finished by hand to millimetre precision.

The field Shelters start life as bespoke panels...

 

Onsite a base is laid and the skid system levelled...



The Panels go up one by one...



The roof joists help tie the structure together as well as supporting the roof...

One down One to go...



Although hand finished the shelters are millimetre matches...



And then there were two...

For More Information contact Andy Williams:
Email: andy.swim.tri@gmail.com

A Busy Month: Lamb, Black Pudding and Fibre East...

Busy as ever, we have a whole array of wonderful things on the farm now and coming up very soon. This weekend will see the arrival of Fibre East at Redborne. Fibre East is a huge event aimed at anyone who has an interest in spinning weaving, dying or crafts of most kinds. With over hundreds of exhibitors, live demonstrations and a farm to visit its a great day out...

In preparation our shop is fully stocked and we also have a few new products including a range of cuts of Redborne Lamb, 'Double Black' Black Pudding (Made with Guinness) and an extended range of sauces and chutneys...

We are also supplying new and exciting ingredients to Paris House in Woburn: Mutton which has been made into a delicious looking range of dishes and still more to follow...

Website...

We are now up and running with our new website http://redborneschoolfarm.webs.com/ feel free to have a browse and hopefully get a better picture of what we do here at Redborne School Farm...

Posh Pop and Something Saucey...

 Into our ever expanding range of local and award winning products stocked in our Bijou Farm Shop, we have added:

Breckland Orchard's 'Posh Pop' and Sinclair's Condiments.

'Posh Pop' is a brilliant product from Claire at Breckland Orchard. Claire mixes great natural flavours from seasonal products and memories of Childhood such as Plum and Cherry or Dandelion and Burdock. Multi Award winning 'Posh Pop' is very delicious and as uses no artificial flavourings or additives is much better for you...

We stock the following range:
Plum and Cherry, Dandelion and Burdock, Pear and Elderflower as well as Sloe Lemonade
with Cream Soda and Rhubarb and Ginger coming soon...

Sinclair's condiments are produced by Nik Sinclair in Milton Keynes and like Breckland Orchard's 'Posh Pop' are Multi Award winning. Nik's condiments are perfect to add zing to a Bacon Sandwich using Redborne's Treacle cured Bacon or any of our range of fine sausages...













We stock the following range:

Tomato Ketchup and Brown Sauce, Spicy Banana Ketchup, English Mustard and Roasted Red Pepper Ketchup...

Burgers, Bangers and BBQs...

We have some delicious new Pork based burgers in stock at Redborne. They come in two delicious flavours: Hickory Smoke (A BBQ type flavour) and Pork and Apple...

They are delicious on the BBQ this summer along with our sausages which come in 5 separate flavours: Plain Pork, Pork and Leak, Pork Apple and Cider, Sweet Chilli and Tomato and Cracked Black Pepper...