It’s the most wonderful time of the year

No rain for weeks and bright sunshine has brought the hay meadows in early. A little bit of organic dairy farm calm for your weekend 💚

Two escapees… One swam back 😮 The other thought sod that 😆 Did you know that cows could swim?

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Dinner Beef sandwiches Wagon Wheel In the shade of the hedge Bees busy Blackbird singing Sweet grass drying in the sun

Beautiful demoiselle (the most apt name) down by our pond and beck, there’s loads of them this year and other damselflies/dragonflies too If you’d like to stay on our farm to see them yourself, we have an exclusive pitch available with Wild With Consent! wildwithconsent.com/site/strickley…

We’ve not had a great couple of days (long story and not enough characters), but tomorrow morning (Sunday) something nice is occurring, we are the featured farm for ‘On Your Farm’ at 6.35am BBC R4 🙂 Here’s the link to the programme website 👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

150 years of Robinsons at Strickley. Three generations of our family having a lovely chat with Helen. Lots of cows and birds too! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

It’s a slower pace of life in the countryside

Thank you for all the kind thoughts. I am not doing too bad considering 💚 I’m taking it very steady and being sensible with my recovery (for a change). The bull goes on a one way trip on Monday.

A photo of me, taken from a balloon, posting a video of the balloon, on twitter, posted on twitter 😆

Dawn Birdsong and waterfalls 🤭

Sunday mornings done right

Strickley Goldie 292nd and her brand new heifer calf. The future of our dairy herd, right there, only 10 minutes old 💚

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🧵1. Slight hold up in the village this morning as we brought back our mule gimmer lambs for weaning. These lambs will be sold in September at Hawes for breeding to regular and hopefully new customers all around the country. The importance of keeping the Swaledales on the

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Fetching the cows for milking 5.33am Soft skies Big hedges Daft cows