Autumn around the farm.

Here are some picture of autumn around our farm at Soulton hall 

Harvest home 2014

Harvest home for 2014. Quite a wet morning follows the completion of this major anual task for the farm. 

Some recent pictures. Late summer 2014. Soulton Hall

Rescue dog

This is our resident German Shepard dog. He was rescinded two years ago by GSD rescue. 

Guestbook

This is today's guestbook comments page 

Ample Parking

There is ample parking here!

Helicopter parked at Soulton Hall, for more details about this please go to this page of our website.

Harvest 2014 moves on to Wheat

Harvest 2014 has now moved on the wheat. The above field, the Mill Field, which was begun today, is growing milling wheat this year -- set to become bread in the coming weeks. 

BBC Countryfile Competition

Along with BEst Loved Hotels and BBC Countryfile, we are running a competition.  More details can be found here.

Good luck.

Eco sustainability.

The solar array has been in place for two and a half years and has generated over 100 000 kWh. And the ground sorce heating plant has been operating for ayear and created a similar output of clean energy. 

Pictured at some for the 204 solar panels which run our site. 

Harvest 2014 underway

The 2014 harvest has begun. This is the first load of oil seed rape. It came off at 10 per cent moisture. 

Fledging blackbirds

This week a family of blsckbirds are learning to fly in the courtyard. 

Peas

This is a crop of peas, just south of Soulton wood on the farm at Soulton Hall. 

White garden

This is the view over the white garden earlier today. 

This garden was laid out in 2005 and is often used to celebrate weddings. 

Baby calf born

Below is a picture of a day old calf born at the farm at Soulton Hall last week. We are mainly an arable farm bu the ancient archeology on the farm means that we have some grazing fields close by. 

Potatoes

Potatoes being irrigated on our farm earlier today. 

These are set to become Walkers crisps. 

Cute

This is a baby pheasant chick found separated from its mother while setting a seed bed for some of next year's cropping.  It is very cute, and now back with its mother.  

Wild life conservation on the farm

This is a conservation corner, which is left free of crops (wheat in this case) so that it is available for wildlife.

This sort of setting supports, among other things, small mammals which in turn support their predators, such are barn owls, of which there are now thought to be only 3,000 breeding pairs in the whole UK. We have at least two.

Visitor's Book

Visitor's Book

Here are some pages from our visitor's Book.

National Green Award

H&V Awards 2014 – Renewable Project of the Year

Soulton Hall has been nominated alongside Stiebel Eltron and Total NRG for the H&V Awards 2014 – Renewable Project of the Year.  This is reflecting the work in the ground source heating project.  

According to the nomination notificaton:

"This is one of the industry’s leading titles; being shortlisted is a great achievement and testament to your strong commitment to sustainability and innovation."

The awards themselves take place at the Grosvenor on April 24. 

Click here for more information. 

Blubells in Soulton Wood

Bluebells in Soulton Wood

50 acres of bluebells burst into flower in our private woodland 

To find out more click here.