Fittingly for our first blog post on our new website it’s a time of new beginnings at the farm! We have now launched into our next big winter project... the redevelopment of our large Stone Age house and Neolithic area. So far we have welcomed some wonderful local school pupils and volunteers to help take down thatch and dismantle our old house ready for a new exciting design and rebuild commencing next week!

We are thrilled to be working closely with Wessex Archaeology on this project, using new evidence from their excavations of Neolithic houses at Kingsmead Quarry, Berkshire. We'll be testing new theories, construction techniques and design throughout 😀

We’re documenting the process throughout and will be updating our blog and social media with our progress in the coming weeks and months. Thank you to everyone who has helped make it happen so far, from stripping thatch and daub to donating to our crowdfunding campaign earlier this year! (If you’d still like to support the project you can donate here!)

Here are some pictures of local school children and volunteers from the Deadwater Valley Trust lending a hand!