Work for Dan at Manor Farm.  Task leader Geoff. South of the new Play Barn there are several lengths of standard stock fence with barbed topping which have become a health hazard with changed visitor access. Pig pen boundaries are being changed too. There will be barbed wire to remove and some 80cm stock mesh. […]

Please drive to Manor Farm where we will complete the fencing task started last week. BRING YOUR WELLIES Strong possibility of showers.

It is 3 years since we worked on pond margins and island at Manor Farm.  Since then willow, brambles and nettles have become established in the fertile mud banks. Our challenge is to target only the undesirables whilst leaving intact most of the deliberate planting. Please try to pull out the weeds rather than simply […]

A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]

A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]

A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]

Build 3 big pig shelters at Manor Farm. Fit side cladding and roofs. In the area that we fenced in December 2020. Please bring your drill/driver or impact driver if you can as there will be a lot of screwing to be done. And a sharp panel saw. For week 2 we need 4 more […]

Build 3 big pig shelters at Manor Farm. Fit side cladding and roofs. In the area that we fenced in December 2020. Please bring your drill/driver or impact driver if you can as there will be a lot of screwing to be done. And a sharp panel saw. For week 2 we need 4 more […]

Erect fencing to create more pig enclosures at Manor Farm. Fit about 260m of stock fence and a low strand of barbed wire to posts that have already been driven in by a contractor, in the field beyond the pens worked on last week.

Fencing at Manor Farm within the River Hamble Country Park. Fencing work we didn’t finish in August. And trying to assemble a prefabricated animal shelter.  Park in the main carpark near the roundhouse. The pedestrian gate here will be open (Probably). The field is now wet. Coffee-time cakes courtesy of Peter who celebrates another whole […]