Our Farm Shop and Tea Room is worth a visit as well as being a welcome stop on a walk through the Coombes. Watch out for regular Farmers' Markets and the Christmas Market - access by car is from Mole Road, via Gravel-pit Hill Lane.

The farm has been home to rare breeds of cattle, but the mainstay is pigs, as shown here (The pork products are sold under the brand 'WYSIPIG').

Logs and Firewood are free delivery in the Reading Area

Thursday, 9 February 2012


The 'Marshall Era' (not to be confused with the 19th-Century manufacturer of farm machinery) covered the late 1940's when Agricultural machinery was provided under the 'Marshall Plan'. At this time, a company known as 'Minneapolis Moline' assembled tractors at Winnersh, at least one example of which is at Ellis Hill.
A line-up of tractors, June 2007A Farmall tractor, facing the cafe and shop

The farm has been home to rare breeds of cattle, but the mainstay is pigs, as shown here (The pork products are sold under the brand 'WYSIPIG').
The first three are 'Berkshires', of which only around 300 breeding sows remained a few years ago.
A Berkshire pig, in part of the Coombes alongside the farmyard
These are Tamworths:
A group of TamworthsThe Tamworths can be very inquisitive
This is a Saddleback:
A SaddlebackThe Saddleback