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As we enter 2021 with a new mist of uncertainty in the air, we find ourselves back in lockdown for what seems to be the foreseeable future with most people’s plans and programmes hanging on the timely distribution of the vaccination. For The Farmer’s Arms, as the purchase progresses with…

This week, The Farmer’s Arms project passed its first major milestone. Following an overwhelming response to our national fundraising campaign, enough funds were raised to secure the building and cover the purchase price, associated legal fees and commercial property VAT and stamp duty. A massive achievement, it marks neither…

Picking up where she left off last week, local luminary Wendy Keegan takes us on another walk down The Farmer’s Arms memory lane:  As the 1950s finally gave up the ghost, and the ‘60s came roaring in, there seemed a general acceptance that this was much more than a fresh decade – there was…

They’ve shut the pub! Looking out of the window, the village is in darkness. No brightly-lit signs to welcome thirsty travellers; no car park lights shining through the glass stoppers of the decanters on our windowsill, throwing rainbows round the living room walls. No comings and goings. – Just black,…

As we work on the project we of course find ourselves down fascinating rabbit holes in research. One of the things we recently found via the Church of Charles No Dig Dowding is Richard Perkins’ Regenerative Agriculture course – he’s an inspiring smallholder based in Sweden.