Autumn ‘25 in the Meadows

September definitely marked the end of summer this year. We were grateful for the first week of rain, then the crisp sunlight cutting through the colder days. Our flower bunches consisted of hardy cosmos, as the garden slowly got smaller.

Our Tamworth sow, Rosie, gave birth to ten adorable piglets, which she always seems to time with Strictly coming back onto our TVs.

We watched the piglets grow in October, as they crunched on pumpkins and rolled in the muddy fields after lots more rain.

November brought us an early Christmas. The unexpected “Pembrokeshire Dangler” covered our meadows in a blanket of snow, and we sold our Monkstone wool goods at festive markets in the local towns of Narberth and Tenby. The campsite closed for the season so we could get to work on maintaining the farm, and keeping our pigs, sheep and cows comfortable as days got colder and wetter. We welcomed a new breed of pig, Lucy, a stripy, floppy-eared Angeln Saddleback to the herd.

We had some exciting meetings with local craftspeople, planning new projects for 2026 to further draw on the gifts from our land here in Pembrokeshire.