After the time has passed for the longer term root crops which are great for providing forage or finishing animals in late winter (kale, maincrop turnip and swede, which takes 20 weeks to mature from sowing to grazing), there's still plenty of time to sow the shorter term species to provide ...

Our clay seed coating, CoverCoat, launched earlier this year, has had its first season and received lots of interest. But since it’s primarily of use to arable farmers looking for the most effective ways to broadcast seeds for cover crops into a standing crop before harvest, we’re ...

We’re delighted to be able to provide a very positive news update on our barn owls. Two chicks in the Honeydale Farm nest box have now been ringed by Pat and Albert of the barn owl team of the Wychwood Project. They’re quite different sizes, with one much larger and therefore probably ...

The Cotswold Seeds team were at the NSA’s annual Sheep Event at the Three Counties Showground yesterday. We were giving hourly overseeding demonstrations with the Aitchison seed drill we purchased for Honeydale Farm, explaining how overseeding is a cheap, simple and effective way to ...

Delighted to report that, excitingly, we extracted the very first batch of honey from one of our original, and very full, Honeydale Farm hives (known as hive 1) this weekend.A few days prior to extracting honey, it’s necessary to reduce the number of bees in the supers that are to be removed. ...