The Winter family have owned Lodge Farm since the early 1960’s, and the family has been farming for generations. We farm around 600 acres in total, half of which is here at Gisleham. Over the years, the farm has housed dairy cattle, and pigs, the barns you can stay in were once the dairy and milking parlour, with the top floors being used as a granary, to store the grain. After the animals left, the barns were used as a workshop, garages, and for storage. We are now purely an arable farm and on our 300 acres here at Gisleham we grow wheat, barley, sugar beet and oil seed rape.



Some of our barley is bought by maltsters to be used in the brewing industry to make beer. The nearest maltings are Crisps, near Bungay, and they sell their local malt to brewerys such as Adnams and Woodfords. We have a small micro brewery here in the village (www.trinityales.co.uk) and last year we grew a field of a traditional malting barley for them to have malted locally at Crisps and use to make their own beers.

Our sugar beet crop is grown under contract to British Sugar. It is lifted in the winter months and taken to the local sugar beet factory at Cantley, near Norwich where is it used to produce” Silver Spoon” sugar.

We are in the Higher Level of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme which encourages the growth of native plants and improving habitats for wildlife, birds and insects. This involves leaving margins around fields which are planted with wild flowers and grasses to encourage birds and insects, cutting hedges less frequently to enable birds to nest and animals to forage



There is access from the farm to the local footpath network, and a cycle route is easily accessible.