We'll be at the NSA's Sheep Event at the Three Counties Show Ground tomorrow. Macca is also there with his sheep. Ian and Sam will be giving overseeding demonstrations and workshops and we've goodie bags to give away with pick'n'mix sweets rather than seeds! Come along and say ...

Long Live the Queens

Posted: 20th July 2016

When we carried out our weekly inspection of the seven hives at Honeydale Farm we made some exciting discoveries. Hive two is doing well. Although the bees have not really started to fill their first super, the queen is laying eggs and bee numbers look good. Hive 1 is doing so well that ...
Wet weather delayed episode 4 of our crimper roller experiment, but we finally found a warm, dry day to give it another go. Sam Lane talks about how successful the roller was this time around, and compares the freshly flattened part of the crop with one of the previously rolled ...

Mob-Grazing Guide

Posted: 13th July 2016

It seems that everyone’s talking about mob-grazing these days - a term used to describe a method of grazing and frequently moving livestock systematically around a field to graze different sections in rotation. It’s cheap, as a managed diverse ley reduces the need for inputs, chemical ...

NewBees

Posted: 11th July 2016

Chris Wells has been at Honeydale today settling his bees into their new hives. He brought five colonies in nuc boxes last week and let them acclimatise to their new surroundings before installing the hives. Now the hives have been built, the frames have been successfully transferred from the nuc ...

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