March - Cullimores Organics Farm News

March brought about a change in the weather as we moved from much colder conditions to much wetter conditions (and when I say wet I mean wet, the rain just fell and fell all through March).

March is traditionally a very tense time on the farm as all the ewes are now very heavily pregnant and are close to lambing, they need constant supervision prior to lambing to see that all there needs are met. During lambing they are supervised up to 22hours a day and assisted in birth as necessary. John, our senior partner starts his shift at 4am and works through the day until 7pm, when Jamie takes over and works through until around 1am depending on how busy things are. This system works very well and you get very few lambing between 1am and 4am.
March / April lambing is by far the best way – the grass is always there at this time and the ewes and lambs can go straight out to grass when they are strong enough, this also keeps the milk coming to feed the lambs.
Should you want to know more about lambing why not check out our video diary which can be found following this link.
http://www.mikelusmore.com/lambing.html

Elsewhere on the farm, farmers markets have to continue during lambing and an extra special effort is needed to keep everything going, markets remained very busy despite the weather. We had a very busy end to the month with unprecedented levels of orders coming in for Easter, which is now only a week away.