Sam ‘Macca’ McPherson from the Cotswold Seeds’ warehouse is keen to broaden his experience at Honeydale Farm. He owns a small flock of rare Texels sheep and his father is a stockman at the Sezincote Estate, so he’s putting this background to good use. Here Ian and Macca chat ...

The two hives at Honeydale have been under close supervision for the past couple of weeks and today we performed another inspection on hive 1, the hive which is not under special measures. We did not find a queen but an empty queen cup was discovered, having been vacated by an emerging queen. The ...

When Paul arrived at Honeydale Farm to check the bees this weekend he found thousands of them swarming all over the apiary and immediately contacted beekeeping mentor Chris Wells for advice.Swarming is natural and common at this time of year. In fact Chris said that it had been ‘a very swarmy ...

Ian Wilkinson expains why a system of farming with diverse leys has survived 200 years and provides a solution to many of the problems facing today's ...

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 hunt for the ‘Goldilocks Moment’ where the Roller will destroy the crop before it turns to seed. We didn’t ...