Dear Jamie’s Farm Supporters,

As the academic year draws to a close our farms are abundant with life and activity. July was certainly a big a month for all at Jamie's Farm! In Wiltshire we welcomed whole year groups from our London partner schools, King Solomon Academy and Reach Academy, Feltham. The Reach visit brought together both our Herefordshire and Wiltshire teams to give all the children a profound experience of farm life. Eddie our resident butcher added a butchery session to the packed timetable, allowing children to learn the entire process of where their food comes from. In Herefordshire, back-to-back visits were intermixed with the launch of a significant and exciting new corporate partnership with Hanson UK, a leading supplier of heavy building materials. We have also published our own Jamie's Farm Cookbook in response to popular demand for some of our favourite recipes. Finally we finished the month with the biggest Cock & Bull Festival to date! 

On the farming side of things, in Wiltshire we have almost finished our summer calving and have two more sows due to farrow, just in time for our two remaining visits to welcome new life to the farm again. Our gardens continue to produce bountiful crops in this weather; it's especially a good time for picking tomatoes, courgettes, beans and raspberries. We are also now proud owners of five beautiful bottle reared calves, perfect for interacting with young Jamie's Farmers and allowing a sense of nurture and care to develop. At Oasis Farm Waterloo, a litter of nine piglets are filling our twitter feed and being dutifully cared for by visitors and staff. Hot off the press there is an excellent feature in the Guardian about our work here and the role of city farms. 

August will see us hosting our last two groups for the academic year before Jamie's Farm takes a two week summer break, all in preparation to start again in September. We are looking forward to the new term already and are excited to see what the next year brings. It is heartening to see the Jamie's Farm family expanding especially as we celebrate the end of the first full year of operation for our Herefordshire site, and plans begin to fall into place for Farm Three. We wonder what we will be writing this time next year and what stories of our visiting young people we will have to share!

Please read on to hear more about what's been going on and upcoming opportunities to get involved. 

With Very Best Wishes,

The Jamie’s Farm Team