It may be autumn outside, but when the need for a mince pie (or two) hits, Hannah's delicious mincemeat is waiting for you in the farm shop.
Yum!
Britain's Sexiest Farmer...
With his love of woolly hats, dungarees and baler twine, should we enter Farmer Humph?
Let sleeping cows lie...
The cows are in! They are greatly enjoying being tucked up in the barn, where the prospect of fresh straw is enough to get the oldest and, shall we say, most 'heavyset' cattle kicking up their heels with joy! Before settling in for the night, when all is quiet in the barn...apart from the chewing of cuds, snorting and that one annoying cow with a deviated septum. There's always one. 
Snoring aside, it is warm in the barn, and if fuel prices get any higher, I will be blogging from there. Or maybe just select a nice clean one to bring indoors. No. 100 would do.
It has been a mixed month, a new muckspreader is gracing the fields of Lower Dairy Farm, Dad's been patching up machinery left, right and centre, the JCB got stuck...again, and there's an annoying hole in the Stable courtesy of Jude.
Thanks Jude. It could have been worse, but is another job to add to the list before winter sets in. Fortunately, a scaffold tower was erected in record time, and is ready for the repairs when a tired Farmer Humph and Steeplejack Humbug have a spare moment.
We think he's dreaming about our last sugar beet harvest...! A joyous event coming soon to LDF - Christmas has nothing on that celebration.
(For the record, the women of the farm are still working. Girl power.)
Moo-delling 101
Use nature to your advantage. Find a frame. Work it. 
Blitzen
Father Christmas, worry not! Our latest Caribou calf, Blitzen, joins the elite LDF Sleigh Backup Team. 
He's brought his friend Donner along too, with amazing thunder clouds rolling across the valley today.
It promises to be a noisy evening. But worry not, good news for Humph's sartorial followers...the woolly hats and dungarees are BACK! Autumn is officially here!
Introducing Ballerina...
Foraging bumblebee
Enter the Supaseeder
This, is not just any drill. This is a Vicon Supaseeder LZ401.
And that is Dad obediently drilling grass seed, shortly before I banned him from attending Harvest Festival - you must have something to harvest in the coming year before you give thanks for the present. Farming with your children is fun.
Farmer Humph got his own back as his helpers enjoyed a Sunday afternoon trot behind the tractor, brandishing hoes to unblock the drill coulters (left) as they encountered trash on the headland.
And so today, I'm giving you the opportunity to live the dream...the wind in your hair, a hoe clutched tightly in your hand...feel the rush in 14 seconds of incredible agricultural footage...
Before the chickens ruin everything...
