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Welcome to
Renton Home Farm!
Home
for Margaret and Ian Fleming and their children Graham,
Kathryn and Alistair, it was once the Home Farm for Renton
House but Margaret and Ian have built a modern bungalow in the
grounds of the old walled gardens, the windows overlooking
their farm.
About
580 acres, this is a mixed farm and half the acreage is hill
farm land. Among the crops Ian is growing this year, are
spring barley, winter wheat and oats. He is also growing
turnips - which during the coming winter will be sold to swede
packers for the supermarket trade and used as feed for his
livestock.
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| There is a
mixed beef breeding herd of eighty cows, among them Charolais,
Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Limousin and Belgian Blues,
running with a Limousin bull.
The calves are reared at home
for the first twelve months and then sold as store cattle to
be fattened on other farms.
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| The heifer
calves are retained for breeding and when a shortage of home
bred animals occurs, twelve to twenty-four
month-old heifers are 'bought in' as herd supplements. |
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The
cattle graze the fields and are also fed turnips all year
round, eagerly lining up for this daily addition to their menu
at breakfast time!
A
flock of 400 breeding Suffolk Cross ewes are bred to pure
Suffolk Stud rams for the early market. The lambs being born
in January, which is unusually early in this part of the
country!
The
lambs are born and reared under cover and thrive on the
comfort and care they are given.
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Ian
does most of the farm work himself and Margaret keeps the
paperwork in order!
Assistance
from all the family is required from time to time and
willingly given and reciprocated!
Ian
is the faming neighbour everyone wants; always willing to lend
a hand and a stalwart friend in adversity!
Having a great
sense of humour, he loves to share a joke with everyone!
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ago, Ian was a well known rally-car driver and is still a very
keen follower of the sport.
Often
'ribbed' by his friends and neighbours about his collection of
oddments on the farm, nevertheless, their retention ensures
that nothing is wasted at Renton Home Farm!
Obsolete
items are frequently put to good use, old machinary is
cannibalized for repairs and items completely out of date are
usually found an innovative and useful purpose somewhere
around the farm!
It's
very likely that if something is needed - Ian has got it!
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So
welcome to Renton Home Farm and as these pictures will change
through the seasons 'haste ye back'!
To
contact Margaret & Ian by e-mail click
here!
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