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
Biomass
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
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!
Parsley and Pan Spring 2020
Staff seating for break time!
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/
