Welton Cliff
We grow wheat, sugar beet, maize, potatoes and miscanthus. Some of our wheat goes for seed and the remainder goes for feed. Our sugar beet goes to British Sugar in Newark, the leading producers of sugar in Britain. Our maize goes to a local AD (Anaerobic Digestion) plant to be turned into biogas, which is mainly methane. This gas then fuels a specialised generator to produce electricity, which is fed into the grid.
Our miscanthus, a biomass fuel, is used to produce electricity at the local power station in Brigg. We sell our potatoes through a ‘growers group’ to some of the well-known supermarkets, as well as selling them at the farm gate. We also eat plenty ourselves!
We have implemented the Farm Stewardship Scheme and we will be partaking in the SFI Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme; rotational legume mixes, wild bird food, pollen and nectar mix to name a few.
Our other diversifications include;
Poultry Units
Oil sites
Solar
and we are also the proud home to Lincoln City Football Training Ground!
With large rooms, sash windows and plenty of light from the added roof lights, we had a great canvas to work on. Doing the interior seemed a daunting task
and one which needed to be right.
We wanted to create a Country Living look, whilst making it homely and comfortable. We were lucky to find Jenny (Jenny Dickinson Design), an interior designer from Lincolnshire.
We had already chosen curtain fabrics and bathroom tiles and some paint colours, but needed her expertise to turn our ideas into reality, which is just what she did. She was amazing at sourcing, sofas, chairs, beds, furniture and is great with colours as well as having an eye for detail. We had fun working with her and are very proud of the finished product.
Hello from Welton Cliff
The home of our farm and our main business.
Our family have farmed here in Lincolnshire for the last 3 generations and we have plenty going on to keep us busy!
The Farmhouse Restoration
The project started at the beginning of 2021 and we opened for our first guests 2 and years later. Like most restoration projects it ended up taking much longer than expected and costing a lot more than we had budgeted!
We started with the idea that we would make the current plaster on the walls ‘good’ and work with what we had, a much more modest plan than what we eventually undertook. The house was stripped back to bare walls and insulated, all the floors were dug up all underfloor heating laid throughout. The house is now heated with a ground source heat pump, which consists of ... meters of underground pipe work, an impressive installation to watch.
There is a plant room on the side of the house, which houses what can only be described as a feat of engineering; pipes, wires and switches.
