Filston Farm is a mixed farm in Kent, farming around 400 hectares, on which wheat, oats, peas, oilseed rape and grass are grown, as well as pasture for sheep, cows, alpacas and horses.

Drott for levelling tracks and some fencing

Willow trees - grown for Cricket bats

Logs, Woodchip and green waste for Biomass boilers

Various livestock and staff

Suckler Cows and Beef Stores

Hereford x Friesian bought in to hand rear

Freda enjoying lunch

Rojo as a calf

Freda - orphaned calf

Still on farm 2022 as a cow

Freda - 2019 - escaped to calve...

Relaxing with the animals

Winter Stores 2019 with Auntie Freda

Badger Faced Welsh Mountain flock

Rojo with a calf!

Freda and Charlie - June 2020

Badger x Zwartbles lambs

Pure Badger Faced

Herdwick flock

2020 ewe lambs

Sheep Worrying

Feature in the BBC News highlighting the importance of keeping dogs under control at all times especially around lambing time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-68140779

Pedigree Sussex

We are building a pedigree herd of Sussex Cows under the 'Hope House' prefix

See more information about them here: https://sussexcattlesociety.org.uk/

Other farm activities!

Staff seating for break time!

Parsley and Pan Spring 2020

Weetabix Straw Art Competition

Mole hill flattening

Building jumps for Pony Club Camp

Music video filmed on the farm

No Fence Collars

We have no fence collars on the cows and some of the sheep. They are virtual fence system that is controlled from an app so we have live data about their location, movement analysis as well as being able to move their fence virtually which reduces the need for extensive fencing, allows for mob grazing and gives us access to grazing in places that were previously not an option.

See more information about them here: https://www.nofence.no/en-gb/