The Pathways Blog

Pathways Progress – 25 August 2017

Name the baby Our Facebook competition last month to name the baby alpaca had a great response. Thanks to everyone ...

Pathways Progress – 26 July 2017

Name the baby Last month I mentioned the arrival of our little cria (baby alpaca). Well, a few weeks have gone ...

Pathways Progress – 18 June 2017

Another first – meet baby Al Al is not his real name – we hope to run a competition in ...

Pathways Progress – 26 May 2017

Spring has sprung – at last It's been a long time coming. After the early Easter sunshine when we were ...

Pathways Progress – 1 May 2017

1st Birthday Celebrations A lot of very exciting things have happened at the farm over the last two years or ...

Pathways Progress – 22 March 2017

Meet Geoffrey junior Many of you would have heard about our wonderful Billy Goat, Geoffrey, others of you would have ...

Pathways Progress – 2 March 2017

Dignity – That's a powerful word "It gives me dignity." Those were the words of one of the young men ...

Pathways Progress – 26 January 2017

Its not as cold as the Arctic! Well done Stuart and Jem. Christmas morning was so beautiful, the sun was ...

Pathways Progress – 12 December 2016

Sundance at sunset A few days ago, some of the guys were just finishing their stroll around the farm with ...

Pathways Progress – 24 November 2016

Autumn sunshine Despite having experienced some bitterly cold days and some biting winds one of the great things about autumn ...

Pathways Progress – 18 October 2016

Boys toys How can you be a real farm without a tractor? Sorry about the quality of the photo but ...

Pathways Progress – 22 September 2016

Two years On 1 October we have had possession of the farm for two years. It seems like only yesterday ...

Pathways Progress – 8 September 2016

They are at it In the last update I announced the arrival of our alpacas. They are beautiful creatures and ...

Pathways Progress – 17 August 2016

They are here... After weeks of (patient) waiting, in front of a packed crowd (well, 10 of us), the first ...

Pathways Progress – 30 July 2016

They think its all over... it is now! On this, the 50th anniversary of the above phrase, it seemed appropriate ...

Pathways Progress – 12 July 2016

Bringing in the hay With the amount of rain we have had this year we were really fortunate to be ...

Pathways Progress – 27 June 2016

The first animals have arrived We now feel like a real farm... and we're starting to smell a little like ...

Pathways Progress – 1 June 2016

Flaming June! The farm is such a special place – especially when the sun is blazing down and the sky ...

Pathways Progress – 19 May 2016

Now you see it... What a day! I don't often write so soon after a previous update but I was ...

Pathways Progress – 8 May 2016

Spring is in the air What a difference a few days of sunny weather make. It seemed like the ground ...

Pathways Progress – 23 April 2016

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to noneToday is the anniversary of Shakespeare's death (and possibly of his birth ...

Pathways Progress – 3 April 2016

Never a truer word... Having just completed another brilliant Saturday work party I wanted to share this sign which was ...

Pathways Care Farm has bagged a share of a £11.5million carrier bag charge fund

We are delighted to announce we have bagged £12,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. The supermarket teamed up ...

Pathways Progress – 29 March 2016

Meet Geoffrey This is Geoffrey (and his mum). He is two days old, he is a Golden Guernsey and he ...

Pathways Progress – 14 March 2016

5000+ I can remember being so excited and writing about us clocking up 1000 volunteer hours. When we hit the ...

Pathways Progress – 29 February 2016

Leap Year report As this day only exists once every four years I couldn't resist sending out another update, sorry ...

Pathways Progress – 23 February 2016

STOP PRESS – Tesco Voting (27 February – 6 March) As most of you will know, shops have had to ...

Pathways Progress – 9 February 2016

The adventure goes on... When I show people around the farm for the first time they often say 'I hope ...

Pathways Progress – 18 January 2016

This is the year We are not ready just yet but we are well on the way... The farm has ...

Pathways Progress – 8 December 2015

After the rain comes refreshed hope I have just read a news article which stated that this November was the ...

Pathways Progress – 19 November 2015

Down came the rain We have been so blessed with the weather since we got the keys just over a ...

Pathways Progress – 2 November 2015

Lighting up the sky Last Saturday we had another work party. The weather was once again beautiful and we managed ...

Pathways Progress – 26 October 2015

Holiday reflection I recently celebrated my 60th birthday... I know, I don't look a day over 59! Rather than enjoy ...

Pathways Progress – 10 October 2015

£25,000 vote now on Having had such support and success with the Aviva funding bid we have been entered into ...

Pathways Progress – 25 September 2015

One year on Next week marks the one year anniversary of us taking possession of the farm! Its hard to ...

Pathways Progress – 14 September 2015

A family affair Last Saturday started with a fair bit of rain and a small handful of people... I received ...

Pathways Progress – 7 September 2015

Celebration What a treat. Over 60 people were able to get along to the celebration BBQ a couple of weeks ...

Pathways Progress – 10 August 2015

It's up! After hours and hours of work by so many wonderful people, the polytunnel is covered. We still have ...

Pathways Progress – 3 August 2015

Aviva funding As many of you will by now know, we were successful in our funding bid with Aviva, who ...

Pathways Progress – 13 July 2015

The polytunnel saga A bit like the frog that always jumps half way to the pond bank and never actually ...

Pathways Progress – 1 July 2015

Aviva funding The big news for this update is that we won our bid for the Aviva Funding. This is ...

We did it! We won!

Pathways Care Farm is officially one of the projects that will benefit from the Aviva Community Fund 2015! We will ...

Pathways Progress – 21 June 2015

I have never really given much thought to hay, nor to the process of bailing it and storing it. However, ...

Pathways Progress – 14 June 2015

Having won our group in the Aviva voting section of the funding bid we have to submit answers to further ...