• Luxury Lemon Curd with Elsas Organic Duck Eggs From higherfingle in (22 days old)

  Luxury Lemon Curd This makes a creamy lemon curd perfect on toast or for filling sponge cakes. I use this when we have lots of eggs in the spring. Try ringing the changes and try orange curd by subst… more

• Recycling again! From higherfingle in (34 days old)

  Farmers tend to be naturally careful, which means the green mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ is not new on the farm. In fact farmers have an extra phrase ‘collect and keep any junk just in case.’ The … more

• all a twitter From higherfingle in (48 days old)

  Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter … more

• Back To School From higherfingle in (48 days old)

  The dust is settling now everyone is back to school. This includes the twins that have happily gone of withe the big ones without a backwards glance! Being left at home alone means i have ample time t… more

• Free Range From higherfingle in (251 days old)

  It surprises me sometimes that it is not really clear that organic poultry must always be free range. As part of the organic certification we have to let the ducks out unless the weather would be so b… more

• Maybe spring? From higherfingle in (255 days old)

  Maybe spring has arrived today, or at least we have seen the sun at last (still a cold wind off the moor). Even managed to dry some washing. The ducks love the fact the day is getting longer and are r… more

• labels From higherfingle in (265 days old)

  Here is the new labels And a little late a picture of the ducks first sight of snow! Just worked out how to get photos on the site. … more

• New website! From higherfingle in (271 days old)

  Hurrah, at last the new egg site is online. Not completely finished with loads more recipes to go up, but it gives an idea of what it will be. Of course it has a gorgeous picture of the inspiration be… more

• Rain at last From higherfingle in (300 days old)

  My poor ducks are releived that the frost have finally gone and they have lots of water and mud to paddle in again. It has been real struggle to keep all the stock with water and with enough feed to k… more

• Nativity Plays From higherfingle in (334 days old)

  This is nativity play week, we have the playgroup Innkeepers Breakfast and the school Star Nativity. Both have been lovely, but thank goodness i didn't have a star costume just shepherds and Angels. T… more

• Christmas Puddding From higherfingle in (343 days old)

  We've been making christmas puddings. Our old family recipe is quite simple, my mum would always say '1lb of everything'. As we didn't want to feed half the village we just did 1/4 lb everything, curr… more

• Poorly children From higherfingle in (348 days old)

  What a week, with all the children taking it in turns to be ill. I hate it when you can't make them better, just cuddle them and hope that it soon passes. Poor things, hopefully it will get it out of … more

• Planet Party From higherfingle in (353 days old)

  What a delightful party we have had for 8 year old boy with a great mobile planetarium. So not just fun but educational too. We also had lots of planet cakes, biscuits and spaced themed tea, as well c… more

• Back Home! From higherfingle in (357 days old)

  What a relief to be back home. Although it was wonderful to meet so many lovely people it was completely exhausting and i was so homesick for all my brood. George, Henry and Bella worked really hard a… more

• Christmas fair From higherfingle in (365 days old)

  Tomorrow very early, i'm off to London untill Sunday for the Country Living Christmas Fair. What am i going to do without my darlings for 5 days. I have only left the twins for 1 night before so it is… more

• Muddy ducks From higherfingle in (372 days old)

  The duck fields are all slimy mud at the moment and with grey misty days they don't dry out. As a simple precaution to stop Nevil killing our laying ducks, they are kept the house side of the road and… more

• Duchy Launch From higherfingle in (374 days old)

  We are proud to announce that you are now able to buy Fantastic Duchy Originals geese direct from http://www.higherfingle.co.uk for Christmas. These geese are just the same as the other Higher Fingle… more

• Television Star From higherfingle in (378 days old)

  My talented daughter has been out promoting her eggs again. This time she appeared on the Alan Titchmarsh show. It was a really interesting trip out for the oldest children (we left the twins with gra… more

• Farm study centre From higherfingle in (384 days old)

  At last we have a picture of the proposed education center and hopefully rob and his team at Lodgico will be starting soon. … more

• Trip to London From higherfingle in (388 days old)

  Higher Fingle farm is off to London for the Country Living Christmas Fair. This is a big thing as we don't often leave Devon and certainly don't go anywhere with lots of people. There is so much to pl… more

• Pigs for sale From higherfingle in (401 days old)

  Those piglets have dug up my garden again today. When i say piglets one of them is quite massive and just dug a trench across the lawn. So out I go shouting and screaming at them and they just look ro… more

• Wet ducks and Royal Pies From higherfingle in (403 days old)

  After some fantastic weeks we are now back to rain and mud. Although the ducks and geese love this to dabble in, it's not so good for the poor farmer who has to struggle through the mire to feed them … more

• Christmas is coming!!! From higherfingle in (412 days old)

  Christmas orders are starting to trickle through now. This makes me have to get organized for the great Christmas campaign. First thing we start planning is the distribution of all our orders, the Ch… more

• Does price matter? From higherfingle in (414 days old)

  The organic debate is still raging. I find it increasing difficult to keep my temper when trying to explain that the price of an organic chicken cost what it does because of the feed, straw and the fa… more

• Chicken Crazy From higherfingle in (416 days old)

  This week the Organic Chicken market has exploded into action. Our biggest customer is having a major promo for 1 week only and our sales have gone through the roof. This is great as we could do with … more

• Goodbyes From higherfingle in (426 days old)

  Today we have had electricity all day, not too much rain and even some glimpses of sun. But Our talented, musical nephew has gone home, after helping us out for a few weeks when polish workers are awa… more

• Crazy Day From higherfingle in (427 days old)

  A few minutes ago i wrote a long blog about what a crazy day, mainly due to losing the electricity supply and a visit by a journalist from the mail on sunday. Following the theme of everything going w… more

• We are Champions!! From higherfingle in (430 days old)

  What a fantastic day!! At last we have won the Waitrose/country living Made in Britain Award for Higher Fingle farm Organic Duck and Elsa's Organic Duck eggs! At a very muddy Burghley we were presen… more

• Organic Dilema From higherfingle in (448 days old)

  In the great chicken business we are having heated debates about the organic versus free range debate. Would it be right to offer a free range alternative using cheaper feed and therefore selling a qu… more

• MONDAY! From higherfingle in (450 days old)

  I dislike Mondays as it's recycling day. As much as i like the idea i hate sorting out piles of paper each week for our collection. Unfortunately Nevil feels the same and has piles of wet plastic arou… more

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