📅 Seasonal Calendar

Every month something special happens on the farm. Animals, plants, birds and the sky — nature is always moving!

• ✦ Extra warm feed for the animals
• ✦ Count the seeds for the new season
• ✦ Order seeds for the garden
• ✦ Bats hibernate in the barn — stay quiet!
• ✦ Best time for stargazing

• ✦ First seeds indoors on the windowsill
• ✦ Snowdrops bloom at the entrance
• ✦ Tits build nests in bird boxes
• ✦ Lambs can arrive early!

• ✦ First lambs of the year!
• ✦ Cranes fly over in formation
• ✦ Hens lay more eggs — longer days
• ✦ Preparing the kitchen garden
• ✦ Insect hotel wakes up — bees active

• ✦ Tulips flowering in the picking garden!
• ✦ Storks return from Africa
• ✦ Kitchen garden: lettuce, spinach, radish
• ✦ Barefoot path opens — soil warming up
• ✦ Goldfinches singing their best songs

• ✦ Lathyrus and first summer flowers blooming
• ✦ Donkeys enjoying the fresh grass
• ✦ Swallowtail butterflies visible
• ✦ Kitchen garden in full swing
• ✦ First strawberries in the fruit garden!

• ✦ Picking garden at its best — make bouquets!
• ✦ Dragonflies at the water play area
• ✦ Donkeys enjoy the shade
• ✦ Roses in full bloom
• ✦ Cherries and raspberries in the fruit garden

• ✦ Sunflowers and zinnias blooming
• ✦ Harvest courgettes, beans and cucumber
• ✦ Evening visit: bats hunting over the meadow
• ✦ Kingfisher to spot along the canal
• ✦ Kitchen garden producing abundantly

• ✦ Dahlias at their peak — spectacular!
• ✦ Perseid meteor shower — shooting stars!
• ✦ Harvest tomatoes, peppers and pumpkins
• ✦ Butterflies on flowers: red admiral, tortoiseshell
• ✦ Summer picnic in the picking garden

• ✦ Dahlias still beautiful
• ✦ Harvest pumpkins for Halloween
• ✦ Migratory birds overhead — cranes!
• ✦ Collect chestnuts in the nearby woods
• ✦ Pick apples and pears in the orchard

• ✦ Pumpkin festival at the farm!
• ✦ Picking garden season closes — last bouquets
• ✦ Deer visible at dusk
• ✦ Insect hotel goes to sleep for winter
• ✦ Starry sky becomes darker again

• ✦ Animals get more hay — less grass
• ✦ Badger and marten active at night
• ✦ Winter garden work: pruning and mulching
• ✦ Plant bulbs for spring
• ✦ Kitchen garden rests and composting

• ✦ Starry sky at its best — use the AR star map!
• ✦ Extra cuddles for the animals in the cold
• ✦ Tearoom warm and cosy
• ✦ Planning for the new farm year
• ✦ Christmas tree from own land