Roy and Victoria Taylor are happy to welcome Haines Watts on board as Property Managers of Blisworth Hill Farm Business Park.
Locally based, Haines Watts will be dealing directly with both old and new tenants on a one to one basis.
We are sure this will be a successful venture and look forward to continuing to give all our tenants the best service possible.
The new Cafe and Gym are coming on a treat and the end is in sight!
Next week we are having the for the underfloor heating in the Cafe installed.
Air source heat pumps (ASHPs) absorb heat from the outside air. This heat can then be used to heat radiators, underfloor heating systems, or warm air convectors and hot water.
Different from a ground source heat pump, an air source heat pump extracts heat from the outside air in the same way that a fridge extracts heat from its inside.
It can get heat from the air even when the temperature is as low as -15° C.
Heat pumps have some impact on the environment as they need electricity to run, but the heat they extract from the ground, air, or water is constantly being renewed naturally so as usual we are doing the best that we can to protect our environment.
So the scaffolding finally came down this week and the internal fit out is moving along at a pace. its great to see progress with Café 👍
Thank you to everyone who completed and returned the questionnaires regarding food you would like to see offered in the Café and what equipment you would like to see in the Gym.
The Kitchen area is being designed as is the sanitary ware for the shower block.
We are getting very excited for everything to be ready for the grand opening!
Do you remember our little ‘Quackers’ Family? Well they arent so little now! All thriving on their pond – apparently they will soon fly away ……. thats gratitude for you!
A couple of weeks ago, a day old wild duckling was wandering around our Farm yard looking totally lost and bewildered…..he had been abandoned by his Mum 😭 so Farmer Roy scooped him up, tucked him in his jacket and brought him home. He was given his own box with straw, food and water, a heat lamp so he would stay nice and warm and a cuddly toy so he wouldn’t be lonely.
This was fine for around 7 days but then we noticed that the cuddly toy just wasn’t doing it for him so we bought an Aylesbury duckling for company. Things were perfect and life was good.
About 10 days later, our digger driver was working very hard and unfortunately disturbed a ducks nest. Farmer Roy knew he had to give the unhatched eggs a chance because once a nest is disturbed Mum won’t return. Even though the eggs were cold, he carefully picked them up, wrapped them in a blanket and dashed home. They were put in an incubator and were all hatched!
So our first little duckling, who had been abandoned, now has a new family 🦆
We have new tenants! We spotted these two in one of our grain stores and immediately contacted the Tawny Owl experts who came to check them out and confirmed they are happy and settled and can stay where they are.
What names do you suggest for them?
The tawny owl is an owl the size of a wood pigeon. It has a rounded body and head, with a ring of dark feathers around its face surrounding the dark eyes. Tawny owls in the UK are mainly reddish brown above and paler underneath. It is a widespread breeding species in England, Wales and Scotland but not found in Ireland. Birds are mainly residents with established pairs probably never leaving their territories. Young birds disperse from breeding grounds in autumn. They eat small mammals and rodents, small birds, frogs, fish, insects and worms.
We are very proud to announce that we have purchased a Sly Agri Precision Maize Planter which has been part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
We received a grant from the LEADER Programme for the Clay Vales area which spans Aylesbury Vale, Rural Milton Keynes and South Northamptonshire. It is predominantly rural with open grassland plains, including a mix of arable and livestock farming as well as a few dairy farms and a growing diversity of rural businesses.
Isn’t she a beauty?
To read more on the Programme here is the link www.leader-programme.org.uk/areas/the-clays.html
After lots of hard work and dry weather, the roof trusses are on what will be the new Cafe and Gym area and the skyline will never be the same again!
Really looking forward to having a coffee and a slice of cake to celebrate! and then popping into the gym to work it off!
Here the tractors are compressing the foraged crop in the silage clamp forcing the oxygen out. It will then be covered with plastic so it can be ensiled (basically pickled) which preserves it. It (the silage) can then be fed into the AD Plant over the next 12 months to produce electricity.
Here we see the wilted crop being collected.
The Forager chops it to a length of 6-10mm and the trailers then deliver it to a silage clamp.
Once at the silage clamp, two tractors compress the crop to remove all the oxygen and cover it with plastic so it can be ensiled (basically pickled) which preserves it. It can then be fed into the AD Plant over the next 12 months to produce electricity.