Proud Sow are our wonderful new butcher partners who stocked Shimpling Park Lamb in Dulwich Village and Crofton Park in London. We are grateful for their support of British  organic farming and look forward to working with them again as soon as the lambs are ready

Lavenham Butchers continued to grow their sales of Shimpling Park Lamb last year supplying local restaurants and selling in their fantastic shop. Thank you butcher boys. Can't wait for the new season to work with you again.  

When times get back to normal we can't wait to share our lamb with the amazing chefs at the great Maison Bleue in Bury St Edmunds. The most elegant eating experience you can imagine. 

A new sheperding team have started looking after our New Zealand Romney flocks. Robert Spink and Cameron have nurtured some fat and chilly ewes through the first tough winter in a while!

Spring drilling is well underway at last after the rain. At least three weeks late but sailing along with our System Chameleon from Sweeden. Very much enjoying sharing this technology.

Many of the visitors to the farm have asked to be updated when the lambs arrive so we are now on Instagram at Shimplingparkfarmsuffolk.  Here are a few lambs drying out after the rain. 

The leys and pollen and nectar mixes that we have under-sown in our crops ready for feeding our sheep and pollinators are looking good having been established with our new System Cameleon drill. The Cameleon has also hoed the crops as well

It hardly seems possible bjut harvest is upon us. Disease levels are fairly high this year in our crops due to the very wet spring we have had, but in spite of that crops are still looking good and our fingers are firmly crossed!

Our lambs have been born on the farm! All our ewes have proved to be excellent mothers, giving birth unassisted outside as nature intended. They are all very protective over their babies and are now enjoying some spring weather.

The rams have done their job! The lads were introduced to the ladies on the 5th November and having been working hard to make sure that we have a good crop of lambs in the spring. They are now relaxing with Yogi the hairy pony who has adopted them and leads them around the farm better than any sheep dog!

Our autumn crops are now beginning to peek through the soil. We sow our crops on wider rows so that we can mechanically hoe inbetween the rows to deal with weeds as we don't like to use chemical sprays on our farm. However, we only hoe when necessary to avoid disturbing ground nesting birds.

We are now fully underway with sowing our autumn cereals. Winter barley, spelt and oats are in the ground with wheat being sown today. Seedbeds have been excellent and with a warm start to October the crops should emerge within the week. This autumn we are using our new Swedish drill which not only sows seed but hoes weeds out of our crops as well. 

Today we took delivery of 250 more New Zealand Romney ewe lambs to increase our flock to 500. They soon settled in after their journey up from Kent and soon will be on the clover at our other farm at Lavenham Lodge.

Now harvest has finished our under-sown pollen and nectar leys are bursting with flowers for some late season nector for bees and other foraging insects.

The lads have arrived! It's time for our lovely lady New Zealand Romneys to find a mate and their choice men have just arrived. Rams currently to be found on clover rich leys and getting ready for action!

National Organic Combinable Crops conference is being held at Shimpling Park Barn and Farm  

Harvest has started with us just managing to get our organic spring barley just before of pollen and nectar mixes grew out of the top of the crop. Phew!

Our new Swedish drill has arrived. System Cameleon is the Scandanavian way to sow seeds and hoe weeds. It is the first machine to be imported into the UK.