If you haven’t already discovered that Champion Plants are now directly retailing from North Perrott Farm Shop and Garden Centre, the lead up to Easter Weekend is an ideal time to come and browse our plant area. It’s brimming with fresh and interesting shrubs and perennials and we have an early selection of basket andContinue reading “Champion Offer – Spring Sale.”
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A CHAMPION START TO SPRING!
How often it is that as one door closes, another one opens. The sad news that draws to a conclusion the Antiques Bizarre in Crewkerne, leaves a retail vaccancy for Champion Plants, one of the many vibrant and eclectic busineses the have called the retail centre home for many years. Champion Plants is based inContinue reading “A CHAMPION START TO SPRING!”
Sheep grazing on the farm
Sheep will be moving onto the farm shortly. Please be sure that your dogs are under close control at all times and on a short lead if not able to respond to instant recall, as per the countryside code. Please report any incident regarding the sheep immediately to the farm shop, on 01460 77090 PleaseContinue reading “Sheep grazing on the farm”
Apple Pressing 2025 now fully booked.
2025 has been officially (?) designated a “mast year”. This is often described as a prolific harvest of nuts and fruits, when fruiting trees generally provide much more fruit than the natural fauna can consume. Generally they occur every 4 years but everyone seems to be in agreement that 2025 is a 30 year phenomenon.Continue reading “Apple Pressing 2025 now fully booked.”
Harvest Update
We have all been a bit confused by the weather this season. Uncomfortably dry during the growing season and uncomfortably wet now that harvest has started. We are about half way through our main dessert harvest now, apple maturity appears to be maintaining about 7 days earlier than last year. Attached is a photo ofContinue reading “Harvest Update”
Making the most of the 2025 apple harvest – APPLE JUICING
Why not maximise your bumper harvest by making it in to apple juice? Once the juice has been bottled and pasteurised, it will last for as long as you want and certainly until the nex t harvest. You can find out more about how to get your apple crop made into juice on our websiteContinue reading “Making the most of the 2025 apple harvest – APPLE JUICING”
HARVEST BEGINS
2024 started with the continuation of a wet winter into a miserable wet and cold spring. Our fruit crops have not enjoyed this year and despite a promising blossom, most orchards have returned very light crops. We started picking Victoria plums on Monday and they are now available in the farm shop. Don’t wait, IContinue reading “HARVEST BEGINS”
On the Telly-Box……again!
Please keep a beady eye out for the new Channel 5 series entitled “Somerset: Wonder of the West County”. This follows on from their well recieved series shown last summer, “Dorset: Country and Coast”. Both series feature interesting aspects of the county, local businesses and the people that work in the area that give theContinue reading “On the Telly-Box……again!”
The Sun is Over the Yardarm
We will be open at 6pm on Monday 12th April for a chance for villagers of North Perrott to meet again for the first time this year and to raise a glass in memory of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Earl of Merioneth. 1921-2021 RIP Booking is esssential, please let us know viaContinue reading “The Sun is Over the Yardarm”
VEGETABLE PLANTS (click&collect)
Easter has fallen early this year and while we have been selling a few summer bedding plants (for those that want an early start to their hanging baskets), the threat of frost is still very real, all through this month and maybe beyond. It’s therefore quite early to be talking about tomatoes, cucumbers and melonsContinue reading “VEGETABLE PLANTS (click&collect)”