History
For the last 30 years or so we have delivered carrots to the London area, at first running alongside Mum, Betty Power, and Dad, Bernard Power. We discovered a firm that made nets which are much healthier for the carrots than bags and the business of selling horse carrots at Good Hope Farm began in earnest. Unfortunately my father died in 1996 and my mother retired in 2000, so I bought the farm in 2001.
For the last two years I have been working for a local company and studying all aspects of business in order to improve our stock feed carrot business. My husband, Dave, and I have steadily improved the farm and carrot business. We have already expanded into parsnips and are determined to bring it into the 21st century! I am now working full time on Good Hope Farm to concentrate on developing its full potential.
For the last two years I have been working for a local company and studying all aspects of business in order to improve our stock feed carrot business. My husband, Dave, and I have steadily improved the farm and carrot business. We have already expanded into parsnips and are determined to bring it into the 21st century! I am now working full time on Good Hope Farm to concentrate on developing its full potential.
1996 to present by Nicola Wagland.
1976 to 1996 by Betty Power.
We moved to Haddenham in July 1976. We were supposed to be moving to a small holding in Kent but at the last moment the owners decided not to sell. At the time Good Hope Farm was only a large potato field which goes to show that some things are just meant to be! We managed to find grazing for the cattle and ponies and quickly started building barns and stables for the winter. You may recall that 1976 was the hottest summer on record with a great plague of biting ladybirds. They got everywhere!
A short history of Good Hope Farm
(including P & F Holdings & The Carrot Express)
(including P & F Holdings & The Carrot Express)
In September the heatwave finally ended with great thunderstorms. It rained and it poured. All our grazing went to mud and the livestock had to come in early. To help spread the winter feed the local farmers suggested that we get stock feed carrots in from 'Snowy' Salisbury in nearby Sutton Gault. My husband, Bernard Power, was always thinking of new things to do. He decided to put some of the carrots into feed bags and take them to livery yards and stables in the London area. This proved very popular. He then had the idea of selling them to the racing stables at Newmarket. All the stables would save their empty sacks which we would collect and bring back full of carrots. And people think that recycling is a new idea!
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