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Sainfoin at Honeydale
Our Sainfoin field is doing very well and is now coming into flower; a beautiful sight. The seed was drilled last June into a new, clean seedbed after ploughing and pressing ...
Crimper Roller Update
The second episode of the No Till Crimper Roller series follows on from week one where we established the crop was a little to under-developed to crimp yet. We continue to ...
US Technology in the Cotswolds
The No Till Crimper Roller is standard farm machinery in arable America but as far as we are aware our experiment at Honeydale Farm this weekend is among the first times that ...
Testing the Water, Mob Grazing, Ploughing and Scattering
Testing the Water
Following our participation in last year’s Thames Water Blitz, organised by Wild Oxfordshire and Earthwatch, we again tested the water at ...
Honeydale From The Air!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a drone, which flew up and over Honeydale Farm last week with a camera attached. From an altitude of 500ft it captured some wonderful ...
October Update
Thames Organic Growers
We were delighted to welcome this group of vegetable growers who are interested in making soils more fertile and productive by using green manures. They ...
Combined Effort & A Quick Fix
The combine harvester we bought earlier in the year had its first outing last week, when we brought in the spring barley.
The sun was shining, all was running sweetly and we ...
Honeydale Summer Update - Crops
The Crops
We planted a variety of crops earlier this year and it’s been encouraging to see them all growing so well.
The twelve acres of Herbal Ley we planted ...
Spring at Honeydale
Spring at Honeydale
We’ve been planting grass and wildflower margins at the edges of the fields to create pathways to walk around and we’ve also sown our Dry Land ...
Barley
Now the soil has warmed up we’ve planted a strip of barley in each the arable fields, a total area of about 4ha, retaining what was grown on the farm before, and ...
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.