It is a bitterly cold day on Salisbury Plain with a cold easterly wind and the forecast of snow, but today feels strangely 'springlike' to us.
The amount of daylight has increased and our flock of Maran hens has duly responded by ending its winter break and providing us with some wonderful eggs.
The walk up Cotley Hill with our springer spaniel Phoebe was a 'face numbing' exercise but it did give us the excuse to visit the 'Ginger Piggery' at Boyton Farm for a hot drink and to treat ourselves to some truly local produce. Boyton Farm has been producing fantastic Tamworth pigs for generations (as well as beef, lamb and game). Their farm shop flags up the number of miles that the food has travelled (always less than fifty) and is just the sort of business which we are keen to support. There is an abundance of excellent produce available as within a small radius of the Wylye Valley falls much of Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire.
If you're ever in the vicinity (or on one of our Wylye Valley, West Wiltshire Downs or Deverills breaks) make sure you visit the Ginger Piggery - an excellent rural enterprise with arts and crafts as well as produce.
A steady flow of bookings is arriving at Footpath Holidays HQ which should keep us indoors out of the cold for a while - an opportunity to sample the locally produced (a' Beckett's vineyard, West Lavington) wine we purchased at Boyton.
Enjoy your weekend.
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