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End of Summer
The last few weeks have been very busy ones at Honeydale. Not only have we been haymaking and harvesting but we’ve also been progressing with plans for the development of ...
Combining the Control Plots & Sowing for Winter
This weekend we took advantage of a break in the weather and combined our control plots of spring barley. Since we took over Honeydale four years ago, we have conventionally ...
Spring Planting Farming Update
As part of our eight year rotation we sow certain areas of the farm each year with cash crops or fertility building leys.
Following our experiment last year with sowing ...
Making Sainfoin Hay While the Sun Shines
In the Cotswolds a hundred years ago, sainfoin was grown in one in seven fields, for hay, forage and soil improvement. It’s almost died out now due to high input farming. ...
Animal Farm
The animals at Honeydale haven’t quite taken over yet, but they’ve been creating havoc in the Heritage Orchard! Readers of this blog will know that we’re very ...
Digging The Dirt on Honeydale Farm
Digging the Dirt is a Soil Association series of in-depth reports on farmers who are reaping the benefits of investing in their soil. (by Tim Bevan)
Cotswold Seeds purchased the ...
Intercropping Oats
It was a wet but busy weekend at Honeydale. Last year we under sowed wheat with a yellow trefoil and white clover winter cover crop, and this year we’ve direct drilled ...
Feed the Birds
There’s a nip of autumn in the air and British Summertime ends soon. But the birds at Honeydale are well catered for when winter sets in. We’ve planted two plots with ...
Oat So Complicated
We are seeking a miller or the right equipment to process our oats.
Back in May we planted a small acreage of spring oats at Honeydale. We intended these to be a low cost and low ...
Buckweat and Barley Mow: A Novel Old Idea from Arthur Young
We’ve sown buckwheat as a companion crop for the herbal ley in the first reseed of our new mixed farming rotation. The large leaves of the buckwheat act like an ...
Centre for diverse farming in the Cotswolds.
About Us
It's always been part of our vision to have a farm as an extension of the Cotswold Seeds business and in 2013 we bought Honeydale Farm, one hundred acres in the Cotswolds. During the past couple of years we've been making huge progress on the farm and this blog was set up to share this progress with our friends in the farming world.