Behind the Scenes; Changeover Day

The jobs, people and little details that get the Long Barn ready for its next family on changeover day. Head torches on. Portable Dyson in hand. Reading glasses perched on our noses. Every changeover day at the Long Barn ends with one final cobweb check. It might...

The Appleton Poultry Partnership, Revisited

The girls at work around the feeder From the hen house to the plate. Back out where they belong Back in 2020, we wrote about what we rather grandly called The Appleton Poultry Partnership. It made us smile then, and it still does now. At the time, we were very clear...

January Jobs

Making the decision to sell up and set up the Long Barn was the second best decision we’ve ever made.  For those of you wondering, our best was to agree to go out for a date together when we met many years ago at Leeds Uni. We feel very lucky to have made these two...