Ampney Brook Farm

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Organic & regenerative farm: 100% grass-fed Hereford beef, woodland raised pork, population and heritage grains & market garden fruit, vegetables and salad.

We sell direct to local customers, chefs, butchers and mills. Visit our website for more info.

04/11/2026

Week 43 on the farm; we prepped Pinky and Ginger for giving birth! They both have their own woodland paddocks next door to each other in the maternity ward. We had 8 new arrivals, 12 week old pigs from Tim Wilson, who went into our special electric fence training pen and immediately started digging the place up! student Henry was on pressure washing while Harry strimmed round the grain store. Bridget the pig is settling in well. We're feeding the cattle hay and silage as colder weather sets in. We got more fresh beef back from Oink Butchery | Your online Cotswolds farm shop to take to Ciren, Stow and Gloucester Farmers Markets. We've got monster parsnips and celeriac in the garden as well as a whippety visitor! We did a pop up with meat and veg at The Long Table Cirencester! The weather was just lovely at Ciren Farmers Market! from our team enjoyed chatting to lovely customers and stall holders despite the stormy weather. When the suns out we are still seeing dragonflies and ladybirds everywhere! Still so warm for October. Piglets incoming...

19/10/2026

Week 42 on the farm; spooky season is setting in! We're busy on pig work at the moment; with the change in season and ground softening our pigs are rooting/ turning soil over more and so need moving regularly! We welcomed a new sow called Bridget to our woods! She came to us from and is settling in well. Our volunteer Tamara Giltsoff helped make an electric fence training enclosure for litter of weaned pigs who are arriving this week. We sold x6 in-calf heifers to our friend Rich in Wales, the vet tested them for tb on Tuesday and they were all clear so we loaded them up to go to pastures new on Friday. Exciting they will be the start of a new grass-fed, organic and pedigree Hereford herd for Rich! Carrots are throwing shapes, spooky squash are being stored and spicy salad is being picked in the garden with help from students. Together we bagged up a bulk order of pig feed from Mole Valley Farmers. We cleaned our own spelt for seed, finished cultivations on the field where it's going and planted it on Sunday. Harvest 27 is go! We did a lot last week! We're selling fresh beef and veg at The Long Table Cirencester, Fresh-n-Local Markets Stow Farmers Market and Cotswold Markets Ltd. Cirencester Farmers Market this week, come through. 🙏

14/10/2026

The squash are in! All tucked up after curing in the polytunnel they will store for many months. Some are great now and others improve with age, like a fine w**e! If you would like to get your hands on some delicious organic squash visit us at Gloucester, Stow on the Wold or Cirencester farmers markets where we will also have fresh pasture fed beef.

08/10/2026

Perennial Kale- 🥬 planted under a year ago and bought as a potted plant from Incredible Vegetables they are now around 1m tall and have survived a massive flea beetle attack. This is the first harvest for our box customers, it’s fair to say it’s a lot more robust than some of our annual kale varieties so may take some getting used to. It will however keep producing for several years and hopefully fill any gaps we have in production. Excited to grow more perennial crops. This would reduce compost, plastic, work and allow the ground to always have produce roots in the soil all year. It’s a big yes from me!

06/10/2026

Week 40 on the farm; we are hatching plans for more pigs! Our six new Contented Products arks arrived with excellent service from the lovely driver helping us offload! We picked the last of the jalapeños in the tunnel to make way for planting winter salads out. It might be October but there are still pollinators out and about enjoying the flowers! Our fab volunteer and friend Tamara Giltsoff had a day in the market garden planting out and picking borlotti beans. The pigs are looking autumnal and enjoying windfall apples. We were at Fresh-n-Local Markets Gloucester Farmers Market for the first time with beef and veg, loved meeting new customers there! The farmland birds are back in flocks for autumn / winter and it's a real treat to see huge numbers of finches enjoying the chicory seeds on our herbal leys. Mob grazing and tall grass for the biodiversity win!

06/10/2026

Week 39 on the farm; the polytunnel switch over has begun! Summer crops are coming out and winter crops are going in.. cue cabbage, kale, winter salads. The piglets born in the spring are growing fast and it was time to separate the boys and girls. The girls stayed put in the orchard by the yard and the boys moved to the market garden orchard. We finally finished our new recycling system! We attempted ploughing Driffield Bank ready for drilling winter wheat but unfortunately it is still so dry here and so we pulled the plug for now. Need more rain! Our first batch of homemade compost is ready to go in the market garden. We did our regular monthly pop up at The Long Table Cirencester. Have you seen field mushrooms popping up; tis the season! Spit the toad in the hole.. 🐸

06/10/2026

Week 38 on the farm; autumn is setting in! Our colourful and vibrant squash are curing in the tunnel. We brought the young stock in for weighing and selected our next steer for beef. It's the start of the new school year at and we welcomed two new students on placements at the farm this term! Together we moved cows, harvested veg in the garden and picked apples. We did Fairford Farmers Market and met lots of lovely local customers. Beneeta returned to work with us in the garden after maternity leave; lovely to have the team back together again. Autumn cultivations are go; too down cultivating in Back of Jacks ready for a second wheat crop, probably spelt. We're enjoying the nights drawing in and beautiful sunrises to start the day to again.

02/10/2026

We're at Gloucester farmers market today! Frozen beef, fresh venison and vibrant veg. All organic, all delicious. Come down and meet your local farmers 💚

16/09/2026

We are at Fairford Farmers Market today! Come down for heritage apples, veg, beef and cosmic vibes 🍏🍎

14/09/2026

Week 37 on the farm; sunshine and showers! We had a couple of patients in the cattle herd who needed treatments this week, an old girl and a lame calf. We got a new sheet to cover our grain trailer to satisfy our red tractor certification. We are planning for the new SFI scheme! We met with Stroud Brewery | Organic Craft B**r to hatch future plans.. the veg in the market garden is bright, colourful and on plates around Cirencester! We had a team lunch at The Long Table Cirencester and team planning meetings. We scanned all the cows to see how many are in calf for next spring. Finished the week at Cirencester Farmers Market and welcomed Tori back on board to help us sell produce at markets. Another busy week in the bag!

Address

Harnhill
Cirencester

Opening Hours

2pm - 4pm

Website

https://ampneybrookfarm.co.uk/

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