Annual Report, 2016
A word from Dennis Overton, OBE, Chairman of the Ardtornish Estate Company. Dennis Overton, OBE I’m delighted to introduce this, our third such annual report, on behalf of the team at Ardtornish [...]
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Fresh Spinach & Potato Soup
Ingredients 40g butter 1 large leek roughly sliced 3 sticks of celery chopped 2 medium kitchen garden potatoes peeled and diced 1 bunch spring onions roughly chopped 1.5Ltr of chicken or vegetable stock 500g Fresh [...]
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05, 2017
Fresh Broad Bean & Feta Cheese Salad
Ingredients 250g couscous 250g fresh kitchen garden broad beans 150g fresh kitchen garden spinach leaves Large handful of fresh mint 80g black olives 200g pack good quality feta cheese Method Prepare couscous, according to [...]
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05, 2017
Mad Dogs and English Women!!
Long gone has the winter although April did bring us a few flurries of snow, usual unpredictable West Coast weather, Hello Spring! May Day arrived and to our surprise so did the sun. Long [...]
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05, 2017
Kitchen Garden Spring Update 28th April 2017
It has been sometime since my last blog on the developments in the Kitchen Garden. It has been a really busy but rewarding winter and even with the brief snow showers at the back end [...]
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05, 2017
Hydro Power
The Turn of the Screw’...not the renowned Henry James novel, but the story of our magnificent Archimedean screw...the new source of hydro power at Ardtornish Estate. So apart from producing a mesmerising water motion just [...]
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04, 2017
February 2017 Newsletter
Estate What a busy start to 2017! The main focus of the works team has been to install the new biomass heating main for the yard buildings. The pipes from the boiler house (under construction [...]
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01, 2017
Teething Problems & Winter Wonder
Much to my dismay, my owners and I are learning the pitfalls of the youngest member of our Clan gaining his adult teeth. Yes, you have guessed it, Bracken is teething! Now don’t get me [...]
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01, 2017
New Year Miracle
The McLeod family complete with Tiga a friendly 11 year old ginger Tom Cat and Tara an aging black Labrador set off on a 400 mile journey from Doncaster to Ardtornish Estate for their first, [...]
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11, 2016
Fruit Tree Planting & Maintenance
One of the key jobs this month is rescuing and replacing some of the soft fruit that I inherited in the garden. The raspberries, which are currently sitting in an impossibly weedy and mold ridden [...]
