Bassy's Barn

25/04/2026

22/04/2026

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported the farm 💚

Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we’ve been able to make some lovely improvements for both our visitors and animals to enjoy 🐾🌿

🪑 Our beautiful benches have been kindly donated by Wessex Community Bank

🛠️ A covered seat donated by Resurrection Furniture Alton

🐦 Bird boxes made and donated by Men’s Shed Alton

🌳 Trees and hedging generously provided by Hampshire Forest Partnership

🌾 Hessian to line our pond edge kindly supplied by Travis Perkins Alton

We are so grateful for all your support—it truly makes a difference and helps us continue creating a lovely space for everyone to enjoy 🐑💚

If you’d like to find out how you could help or support the farm, please feel free to get in touch—we’d love to hear from you 💚

We look forward to seeing some of you at our Open Day tomorrow!

03/09/2025

⸻

🌟🐝 SHOW TIME – THE ALRESFORD SHOW! 🐝🌟
📆 This Saturday, 6th September
🎉 STAND -D98

We’re bringing a hive full of brand-new honey & beeswax goodies:
🍊 Honey Marmalade
🌶️ Chilli Honey
🍬 Honey Fudge
🌿 Infused Honeys with Lemon or Orange
and more to come!

PLUS our famous Tichborne Honey – made by the bees right here on the show site. 🐝🍯 You literally can’t get more local than that!

🌞 And if the sun’s out, keep your eyes peeled for the hardworking Tichborne Estate Bees on our stand.

🎁 Chance to WIN a Beekeeping Experience Day too! 🐝

🐝 BEEKEEPING-Order your Dash Accredited , Buckfast Overwintered Nucs, Ready April 2026.

LOOK OUT FOR THE DATES OF OUR LOCAL SHOP OPEN -www.honeybeehappy.co.uk

✨ Come find us, taste the buzz, and take home a little sweetness! 💛🍯

******er

14/07/2025

We are looking for a volunteer for 3 hours a week to help with administration for our miniature petting farm.

Can you help? Please contact us to discuss.

19/10/2023

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers of M3 J9 Project who came along to Bassy's Barn to fix fences, help line our new wildlife pond and help with more chores we needed help with - you were all amazing - Thank you so much - we hope you will be back to help us with our next project.

This is what the M3 J9 Project said about their day with us ...

M3 J9 Project - case study

Bassy’s Barn, Chawton
On a sweltering August day, a cohort from the M3 Junction 9 Project made up of VolkerFitzpatrick, Balfour Beatty, and National Highways travelled to Bassy’s Barn, a family-owned petting farm for children with special needs. At the moment, the farm’s roster consists of horses, ponies, goats, pigs, dogs, and an alpaca, but thanks to the efforts on Wednesday they will soon be adding ducks.

We started the day by laying the waterproof foundations for a new pond on the farm, discovering quickly that although there were a lot of us, everyone played an important role and eventually we had the waterproof sheet in place.

From here, we split into two groups with one group focusing on repairing the roof panels of the stable for the horses while the other group repaired and improved fencing around the farm. The advantage of having a group made of people in construction was critical during the repairs of the stable roof, and the team went above and beyond and patched a hole in the wall too, giving the horses a lovely, draft-and-water-free home as Autumn and Winter approaches.

The group tasked with the fences got to work and, using an auger and post cement to ensure the fenceposts would remain steadfast, extended one of the fences and allowed the farm to install a gate at one end, giving the horses a bit more room while still ensuring the farm did not sacrifice too much space.

For lunch, the owners of Bassy’s Barn generously prepared sausages and burgers for the team, giving us a lovely break before work continued into the afternoon.

19/10/2023

What a wonderful morning at Bassy's Barn - just cuddling a goat

15/10/2023

Sunday Spa Day 💅

03/10/2023

Eeek!!! I love that we have so many exciting vegetables growing this year!! 🥰🎃

23/09/2023

September evenings have always been my favourite 💚☀️

17/09/2023

We do get around 🤣🤦‍♀️🐴👌🏻luckily we managed to get a walk in before the rain came down! ☔️