Gutchpool Farm

Occasionally we run workshops on the farm. The mini workshops may be a full morning or afternoon, while the day workshops last most of the day and include a light lunch. However due to Covid these workshops are on hold for the moment.

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We also welcome school visits in small numbers. These sessions can be customised and might include looking at and identifying trees, plants and flowers, noticing the wildlife including bees and butterflies, a summer river bed survey, or perhaps a  history walk to look at the mediaeval remains of the deer park boundary, once part of the Gillingham Royal Forest.

 

The farm is mainly sheep grazing pasture with lovely ancient woodland, peppered with veteran oaks. We took back the farm a few years ago, and re-established species rich pastures for the sheep and diverse mix grasses for hay. The farm is carefully managed with areas of wildflowers and new woodland with a great variety of wildlife and we farm following regenerative principles, paying particular attention to the health of the soil, biodiversity, the welfare of the flock and keeping carbon where it should be - in the soil.  

 

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