After many hours of deliberating over black pudding and coffee this morning we have come up with a date and plan for this years harvest supper. Every year I try to get as many members of the local farming community to a social get together we call it the harvest supper. The harvest supper is a long standing tradition among farms, and as an estate we used to have our own harvest supper for just our staff. In the hay day we had up-to 100 people come to our supper, but as we restructured our numbers dwindled. We were left with the choice of having a smaller harvest supper for our smaller staff numbers or realising that we were in a similar situation to many of our neighbours we could all get together and have a joint harvest supper, this is what we did. I think that it has been a great sucsess and I find it really thrilling to hear how all the people that come chat away to each and have made good friends especially as we are talking about people that have been working next door to each other for years, without knowing one another.

This year we have decided that we'll go back to an earlier format with an inter-farm skittles competion a meal and a few drinks. Hopefully we can get a good following to this great event, please save the date and spread the word. the people to chat to about this are Me (in no order), Jim Casson, Ian Margate, Kieth Pegdon, James Hewatson-Brown, Richard Gibbins ans Joe White. Sorry about the spelling! I'll be sending letters out in the next week to our list of farm managers in the area, if you get missed out don't take it personally just let someone know that you want to be included in our list.