Our first Christmas at Noltland, celebrated with a houseful of family - mum and dad and Sam and Danny and their 2 kids Ben and Maggie all the way from Sydney, Aus!  Ben is only 22 months old but we managed to get him hooked on farming already. Good times. We were sad to say goodbye to everyone, and look forward to seeing them all again soon!  Thank you for coming so far to see us.

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We now have a fantastic concrete floor in our dairy - specifically where the bulk tank room, hygiene control area and creamery will be.  It was not that straightforward to pour the floor - the telehandler had to transfer the concrete from the lorry into our building because it is a tricky little space.  That said, it was a good thing we had the professionals in - thank you Daniel Harcus Construction.  We still have to apply a durable  hygienic floor over this one, so it needed to be of a high quality.

Obviously we are pretty thrilled by the new floor - a good foundation indeed.

Preparations.

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We brought our cows in on Friday afternoon.  The ground is very wet and it is getting a lot colder.  We were also very keen to try out our new cubicles.  The housing is a work in progress, and we haven’t quite worked out how all the feeding and mucking out will happen.  But the important thing is that after a few misfires, our little cows seem to be lying the right way round in their cubicles, and are munching happily from the ring feeder we put in there every time we go and check on them.

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Interesting year round grazing for cows.

‘Donkey’ our Daihatsu with Nesta, Clover and Bell.

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Another clip of our beautiful organic crop, we’re so proud of it as you can tell but it was probably a bit too thick for the undersow even though it only went in at 75kg/acre. 

Not too shabby!

Wrapping silage.