Sake Festival Photos
Inaugural Sake Festival was held on Saturday 2nd October 2021Weather was't kind but we had some 500 visitors.
Japanese Garden Designer
Dojima Japanese Garden Designer, Robert Ketchell will be around at Fordham Abbey on on Saturday 14th August during the Summer Jazz Party event day, and also Sunday 15th August 2021. If you would like to come and speak to him and ask him questions, please join us on...
Jichinsai Ceremony Pictures
Japanese Shinto style Jichinsai Ceremony to purify the site for the Sake Brewery was held on 28th October. The work is truly underway at Fordham Abbey for the Sake Brewery now, and thanks to the dedicated designers and contractors, hopefully the building should be...
Goodbye a Horse chestnut tree
There are so many big and graceful trees at Fordham Abbey.I am sure that is what makes Fordham Abbey so magical.We should be so grateful for the people who lived here and planted them and looked after them for many hundreds of years. Some of the trees are over 300...
Wettest June?
Is this the wettest June on record? I am not sure but it has been very very wet here. We have not been able to top the front field for silage. We have got to have sunny days now please!!! We need to get our garden and estate for our first garden open on Sunday 10th...
Sea of buttercups
Gorgeous day! Hope this weather lasts. Sea of buttercups in front of the house.
. . . and moved!
Captain: What are you doing in there pigs? Pigs: We are going to move to our summer house today! Kevin: Are we ready pigs? Pigs: Mum. We are so happy here!
Hornbeam Avenue
Just finished planting hornbeam trees on both sides of the approach. Love to be able to see them in 100 years time! So lucky to have Barcham Trees close to us. We thought Jules Baird there was so helpful and knowledgeable!
Pigs’ Summer house
Spring at last! Setting up an outside house for our pigs ready for the Spring. But maybe a few more days in the warm barn before they go out.
‘Fordham Lake’ just for a day
A lot of rain we have had this winter. We can't wait for our daffodil season. This is a picture of our back paddock on 12th January 2016. Luckily it was all gone by next day, and the sheep were in the front paddock, and the piglets under cover! AND now cold like...