by Neil Hickson | Aug 7, 2017 | photo story
Glenn Sargent and Jason Smith called into the farm last night to spend the night. The two friends from Barrow in the lake district have set out on an adventure to paddle in a kayak and canoe all the way from the River Ribble in Preston right the way down to Stone in...
by Neil Hickson | May 13, 2017 | photo story
Thursday was a really great volunteer day with a small army of helpers out there on the field. It wasn’t a specially organised day, just a regular Thursday volunteer day with a few extra rays of golden sunshine. This is the one of the best things about Burscough...
by Neil Hickson | Jan 2, 2017 | photo story
There are just a few of us here today so we decided to put up a temporary shelter to house the basket willow that we will be harvesting...
by Neil Hickson | Dec 29, 2016 | photo story
A great tree planting team from all generations making real headway on our tree...
by Neil Hickson | Dec 26, 2016 | photo story
It’s exactly 12 months ago today that Burscough Community Farm was under 5 feet of water. Consider the difference between the first few pictures taken a year ago and those taken now. You would wonder how the land would recover, but it did. It slowed us down, but...
by Neil Hickson | Dec 23, 2016 | photo story
A big thank you to Booths Supermarket in Burscough yesterday for letting us have some cardboard to mulch our trees down at the farm. A layer of cardboard helps with the keeping the grass under control whilst new trees become established. We will be planting some more...
