At Owd Barn we have over 80 years  combined farming experience. Our home grown vegetables are fresh from farm to shop in less than 3 hours guaranteed.

January 2010

Happy new year!

We have lots of snow and very cold weather, which is great to look at and have fun in, but not so good to go out and hand cut our vegetables in, but we are a hardy bunch and so we continue to cut our crops for the local fresh vegetable market at Liverpool and of course our farm shop.

December 2009

What a month - busy, busy busy!

December is our busiest month of the year, we are hand cutting all our winter vegetables, bagging up potatoes, selling our fresh Christmas trees, creating our wreaths and christmas pots, making christmas lunches in the tearoom as well as stocking up the farm shop with lots of festive goodies.

November 2009

November has been a very busy time on the farm so far, we have been mad busy harvesting spuds all the hours of the day possible to get them in before it's too late. All the produce is thriving on the farm, cabbages, sprouts, carrots and broccoli all ready to pick. Look at the pictures at the top of the page to see them busy at work.

September 2009

6th September - The weather is terrible it never seems to stop raining, most of our barley harvest is still out in the field as we are unable to get the combine harvester out onto the wet fields, it is also proving more and more difficult to dig potatoes with the weather the way it is. We really need it to dry up soon!

12th September - We have had a beautiful sunny week and the combine harvester has finely been able to get to work today, harvesting our barley crop.

April 2009

An excellent month out on the farm, it has seen us pick the last of the seasons cabbage and bag up the final few tons of our stored potatoes.The weather has been perfect for planting our new season crop of cabbage, cauliflowers and broccoli. They are planted with the aid of a planting machine which is mounted on the back of our tractors, on which 2 people (usually Andrew and Steven) sit on it and put the plants into the ground. We have also been making the best of the sunshine to plant our new potatoes and sow our grain.

October 2008

October is an exciting month in the shops, as the Christmas stock begins to arrive, lots of new clothing, toys, gifts and foods. We have also seen the arrival of our freezer of frozen fish from Fish Fanatics a company based in Manchester. We now stock over 15 varieties of freshly frozen fish, from Haddock to king prawns.

Out on the farm we should be busy digging potatoes this month, but as the weather has been so wet it is almost impossible to get the machinery into the field, never mind having to pull full trailer loads of potatoes away. We have also began to harvest our carrots, the field in which they are growing is on sandier soil so it is easier for the tractors to travel on than the moss on which the potatoes are planted. As always Eric, Andrew and Steven are busy cutting our cabbage, cauliflowers and broccoli ,to the amusement of people passing by, who like to blow their horns at us out in all weathers!