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Woodford House, Woodford Lane, Wells, BA5 2UU

A large garden with vegetable and fruit production, bees and chickens. NB garden only open – not house

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Summary

Kim Robinson has created a productive garden so that her family can enjoy fresh food: ‘Home grown food tastes better and we like to know the provenance of all our food’. Her garden produces a wide range of fruit, herbs and vegetables supported by rainwater collection, the use of wormeries and extensive composting. Having completed the Somerset Composting Champions course, Kim ensures that all food waste, other than meat and bone, is recycled in the garden. There is a 20 foot polytunnel to increase growing capacity. There are five active beehives (for honey and beeswax), and 11 hens and 2 cockerels for eggs. Hopefully there will be some newly hatched chicks for the open days.

Green features in the garden

• Rainwater collection from all down-pipes, siphoned to tanks in the garden and polytunnel
• Large organic vegetable garden
• Wormery for liquid manure
• Composting stalls and bins
• Five beehives (it may be possible to demonstrate honey extraction)
• Chickens
• Wildlife habitat
• 20 foot polytunnel
• Fruit trees

Suppliers used and recommended by owners

First Polytunnels for their ‘excellent instructions’

To find out more

To find out more about this property, you can email the owner directly at kim.not.work@freeuk.com

Directions

If travelling by bus, you can get the 376 from Wells to Glastonbury, get off at the Browns Garden Centre stop, and walk quarter of a mile up Woodford Lane. Woodford House is the pink one on the left.
If coming by car: From the A39 between Wells and Coxley, turn into Woodford Lane (beside Brownes garden centre, signposted to Launcherly and North Wooton). Woodford House is the pink house on the left hand side as you start to go up the hill. If you reach a sharp right hand bend, you've gone too far. Please turn down the farm track and into our gravel drive and do NOT turn into our neighbour's tarmacked drive.

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