The Weather The weather played an even bigger factor this year, with drought conditions for much of the growing period. (You can read...
In farming, we are always watching the weather. Sometimes, we are desperate for it to stop raining and sometimes, we are waiting for...
Each year, the Institute of Brewing and Distillation (IBD) hold a competition for British Hop growers. This year, there were 176 samples from...
The Charles Faram International Hop Awards are about recognising the commitment excellence of growers in the UK, USA, Czechia and Germany in the...
Hop tying, or training is a crucial activity which we undertake in the spring at Stocks Farm. The hops are strung first (you...
We attended the ceremony on 10th March with bated breath. We knew that there were some fantastic samples from our 2021 crop but...
There was a couple of weeks on the farm this autumn when apple harvest and hop harvest were going on in parallel –...
The 2021 season started to look a little more “normal” at Stocks Farm. We had visitors for the first time in two years,...
At Stocks Farm, we have stunning orchards and we are growing Gala, Braeburn, Junami and Red Windsor dessert apples. We choose our apple...
At Stocks Farm, we know that we are not just farmers for this generation, but custodians of the land with the goal to...
For the last few years, we have hosted Open Farm Sunday at Stocks Farm – encouraging people from the local area to come...
After good winter growing conditions, we saw plenty of hops shooting up in the spring ready for hop stringing and tying. Having grown...
