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ABOUT CHILCOTTS FARM

Chilcotts Farm is not a working farm but the name of our home in North Devon where we grow fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables for our own use. Having a small flock of chickens, ducks and geese we are self-sufficient in free range eggs. Our bees, not only pollinate our crops, but provide us with Honey and bee related products.

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Spring 2021 Poor Weather Means No Spring Devon Hon

Spring 2021 Poor Weather Means No Spring Devon Honey

Our 2020 Honey sold out rapidly last year. Throughout the seasons we regularly get asked if we have honey for sale and look forward to when we can sell it again. Unfortunately for the bees, the Spring 2021 weather has been poor. As a consequence our bees have been unable to get out and about to gather sufficient nectar for a surplus of spring honey to sell. Hopefully we may have some honey in August. We will notify all our Honey Newsletter subscribers when available. If you want to know when honey is available, sign up to our Honey newsletter.

A Craft Beer At Chilcotts Farm? We are in the pro

A Craft Beer At Chilcotts Farm?

We are in the process of applying for a premises licence for a pop-up tap room in our former shippen (cow shed). Drink in, out, buy direct to take away or buy online.

Premises licence pending (and progressing), we are aiming to open our doors in July 2021!

A crafted selection of beers brewed on premises by Brewing Unplugged. Available for sale online at https://Unplugged.beer or direct from our tap room.

Bottle or draft, the beers are unique – visit – drink – appreciate! After all, life’s too short to drink bad beer! Can’t visit, buy online.

All beers are brewed on premises by our Master Brewer.

We recognise not everyone is into beer, so we will be offering other drinks & snacks too!

Follow US to find out the latest!

Hopefully we will be open from July to September 2021 only …. so a limited time this year. If you turn-up and like us, who knows, we could open again?

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Pickled Eggs With spring well underway, at this t

Pickled Eggs

With spring well underway, at this time of year the geese, chickens and ducks are in full lay so we have quite a few eggs.

This year we have decided to turn our surplus into pickled eggs. Really easy to make, here is our recipe & method:

Hard boil a dozen eggs;In a pan, add 1 litre of water and 150ml of vinegar (we use spirt vinegar);Add 80 grams of sugar, 50 grams of salt, two bay leaves, a tablespoon of mustard seeds and 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds;Bring to the boil and add two sliced onions and allow to return to the boil;Layer the eggs in a sterilised screw top/ Kilner jar (fill the jar with boiling water to sterilise), covering each layer with the boiling liquor;Seal the jar and allow to cool.

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Goose Egg Salad Niçoise As the geese come to the

Goose Egg Salad Niçoise

As the geese come to the end of their laying season, we still have goose eggs for sale. About 3 times the size of chickens eggs, they are a meal in themselves.

Last night we had salad niçoise for tea. One goose egg per adult, soft boiled (boil the eggs for about 15 minutes to get a lovely soft boiled egg with a creamy yolk)

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Getting ready for next winter already. Today chop

Getting ready for next winter already. Today chopping logs #lumberjack #bickington #fremington #chilcottsfarm #winteriscoming

Goose Eggs for Sale! We have goose eggs for sale.

Goose Eggs for Sale!

We have goose eggs for sale. About 3 times the size of chickens eggs, they are a meal in themselves.

You can buy online or from the door. We take contactless payments only.

Two goose eggs laid at the beginning of March

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Happy Christmas! How’s this for a replica of Ch

Happy Christmas!

How’s this for a replica of Chilcotts Farm? Made by my gorgeous daughter. Happy Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year from us all!

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Pumpkins Sold Out Sorry all this year’s Pumpkin

Pumpkins Sold Out

Sorry all this year’s Pumpkins have now sold out! Thank you to everyone who bought some. Have a spooky 2020 Halloween, and hopefully see you next year!

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Pumpkins for Sale! Moving toward Halloween, we ha

Pumpkins for Sale!

Moving toward Halloween, we have started selling our own grown Halloween pumpkins. These have been picked and are £1 each.

Buy from the honesty stall. Find us at Chilcotts Farm in Bickington, Barnstaple.

Sorry, we do not offer pumpkin picking or pick your own.

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Bickington & Fremington Devon Honey For Sale We h

Bickington & Fremington Devon Honey For Sale

We have jarred up this year’s Summer 2020 Honey which is now for sale. Collected and produced by our bees. The girls have again done us proud, the runny honey tastes delicious. Although it will probably crystallise over time (as all naturally produced honey does), when it goes solid, we provide instructions on how to make it liquid again.

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National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) I have ne

National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS)

I have needed to send this off for a while. The honey I took from the hives back in July ( the spring honey) is going to be sent off to have a DNA analysis undertaken.

The objective of the analysis is too assess long term impacts on UK floral resources in the changing environment.

I am hoping that we not only help with this national scheme, understand where our bees have been and what they have been foraging in the spring.

Anyone interested and want to know more, check out, https://honey-monitoring.ac.uk

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Wasp Wars! This year there seems to be a lot of w

Wasp Wars!

This year there seems to be a lot of wasps about in Devon. I have had to narrow the hive entrances down quite considerably to help the bees protect their colonies and honey stores.

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What do you do if you spill honey in your car? Hm

What do you do if you spill honey in your car?

Hmmmmmm slight problem. 5Kg of honey spilled in the boot of the car. Problem ….. how do you clean up the sticky mess?

A frightful mess, and a real waste of this precious harvest. This honey was destined to be fermented and become mead. However during transportation, the bucket turned over and ended up all over the boot of the car and a load of honey jars.

PANIC! How do you clear up this sticky mess. Instinct was to get the carpets out the car and hose them down. Worried about how the carpets would cope with water, as much of the honey as possible was scarped up and scooped into a bucket.

After this, we put the bees to work! (Strictly, as a beekeeper this is not good practice! It can spread disease between hives…. but needs must) The boot of the car was left open, and whatever could be removed, from the car was left sheltered in the garage.

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Nice evening at The Crafty Beer Shop in Barnstaple

Nice evening at The Crafty Beer Shop in Barnstaple @craftybeershop #barnstaple #thecraftybeershop #barnstapledevon

Bees are out collecting the summer honey The weat

Bees are out collecting the summer honey

The weather has not been bad or good, but the bees are out at every opportunity.

The summer flowers are blossoming, and we are hoping for a good honey harvest come August!

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Sticky Morning This morning has been spent jarrin

Sticky Morning

This morning has been spent jarring up some of this year’s spring honey. The hives have done really well, building up the colony, but also out and about collecting and abundance of nectar.

Now onto labelling and getting out for sale.

Roll on the summer honey flow!

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Another May new buds and flowers shall bring “An

Another May new buds and flowers shall bring “Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?” – Charlotte Turner Smith

This spring certainly keeps bringing. The weather continues to be fantastic for the bees. The recent rain has been welcome. This enables the plants to draw up water and increase the nectar flow in the flowers.

In turn this ensures the bees supply continues to come.

The hives are still doing well, and the bees continue to build up their honey stores. Hopefully at the end of May, I’ll be able to harvest the first honey crop of 2020

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The Best April Ever for Bees? I’ve been keeping

The Best April Ever for Bees?

I’ve been keeping bees for 10 years, and I don’t remember an April like it.

The warm dry weather here in Devon, has definitely benefited the bees. They have been out and about every day. The blossom is flourishing and producing the good stuff …. nectar and pollen.

In the garden, the old apple trees, are buzzing. The buzz from the trees provides a background hum to the whole garden. It literally sounds like a swarm of bees is somewhere settling.

The hives are bursting. The workforce has been busy taking advantage of nature’s bounty.

The bees have been so productive that the hives are filled with honey and I have had to make more room for them to store their harvest.

All I need to do now is manage them from swarming and taking their produce away!

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