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Celtic Farming We can now add Celtic Farming to our repertoire of MCFE Visits! Ask us for more details... or challenge us to find the curriculum links for a topic of your choice!

Handwashing We can hire out mobile hand washing sinks which provide soap and hot running water - the ultimate in recommended hygiene practice! Contact us for details.

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Links to great sites!

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Links to related companies and organisations

Tom Main Accountants
Need your accounts or tax returns doing? Want some clear business advice? I can recommend my accountant!
This is Alton
Local magazine, with online edition - we have an article in Issue 2, August 2010!
Easter Wood Alpacas
Champers and Casper came from Easter Wood Alpacas
Dairy Farming
Great resource for teachers and parents to help explain life on a dairy farm.
Make Do and Mend
A local Aladdin's cave for believers in self sufficiency - everything apart from the animal feed!
Fit2cook
Why not learn how to cook all those great seasonal, local ingredients once you have heard from MCFE how they grow?
Spring Cottage Farm
For a local supply of chickens.
Bocketts Farm Park, Leatherhead
A friendly family farm in Surrey you can visit!
Longdown Activity Farm, New Forest
A friendly family farm in the New Forest you can visit!
Cullum's Vetlog
How it happens to a vet...
The Loom Exchange
A useful site for courses & equipment. This is where Sarah went on her spinning course, but other textile craft is also undertaken.
Venta, Winchester's alumni magazine
Article about MCFE in Venta, the alumni magazine for Winchester, where Sarah trained as a teacher.
The Grain Chain
A good website full of interactive ways of teaching topics such as how our food is grown, and gives easy recipes for use within schools too.
Harvester - Young Guest Activities
Not just a family chain restaurant - lots of resources for teachers that help explain where food comes from.
Food - A Fact of Life
This is an easy guide for teachers to develop the ideas and work started by the Mill Cottage Farm Experience, within their classroom. Some great interactive games for primary children.
Chicken Out! Campaign
Do you know about the life your fresh supermarket chickens led before they reached the table? This website and the tv series will soon enlighten you. We can't all get our meat from our back garden, but we can all make informed choices about what we buy. Take a look - the new River Cottage series, Hugh's Chicken Run started Monday 7th Jan 2008 at 9pm.
Love Food Hate Waste
This is an extremely useful website for schools and at home. It gives the reasons behind why waste is an important issue and a helpful feature enabling you to calculate not only how much of each food you will need for each meal, but also gives you the shopping list for the week - you can't go wrong!
Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers
The Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers - they will be at our Open Day on Easter Monday (see the events page.)
British Wool Marketing Board
From Fleece to Floor; From Sheep to Shop. Lots of information and teaching resources.
BBC Food in Season
Great ideas for cooking with food that is in season. Recently we made a whole 3 course meal made almost entirely of food from less than 100 metres away. Now there's a low Food Mileage!
  • Starter: Spinach Soup
  • Main Course: Wild Rabbit marinated in white wine, mashed potato, carrots and corn on the cob
  • Dessert: Spiced Apple Cake with homemade icecream
Year of Food and Farming
The Year of Food and Farming is a campaign to promote healthy living by giving young people direct experience of countryside, farming and food.
The Good Life
If only we'd had BBC backing...
River Cottage
Our hero - just wish we had friends ready to help us out at every turn! PS The Nettle Gnocchi is delicious: treat the nettles like spinach, but invest in some gloves when picking.
Cracking Eggs
All the information you ever needed to know about eggs.

Links to information on our breeds

Golden Guernsey Goat Society
Golden Guernsey Goats
British Kune Kune Pigs Society
Kune Kune Pigs
Maran Chickens
Maran Chickens
Dorset Horn & Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders' Association
Poll Dorset Sheep
Norfolk Black Turkeys
Norfolk Black Turkeys
Call Duck Association UK
Call Ducks

Links to news items about MCFE

East Dorset man celebrates 106th birthday
Bournemouth Echo 21st April 2010
Smallholder of the Year entrant: Tom and Sarah
Country Smallholding September 2009
Tired of city life? Find yourself a smallholding and get in touch with your rustic side
Daily Mail 04th September 2009
Lambs are highlight of farm's open day
Bordon Post 15th April 2009
What a great Experience!
Bordon Post 26th March 2008

Links to personal reviews and comments

Chez Aspie - DJ Kirkby's blog
Chez Aspie - DJ Kirkby's blog 21st February 2010