Our diverse mixtures and herbal leys have become increasingly popular over the past year. The autumn planting window for pure grass stretches until the end of September or even into October, depending on the weather. But any mixes containing legumes, like clovers, really need to be ...

The topsy turvy weather has meant that the harvest has been difficult and delayed for many this year, and it’s literally been a case of making hay while the sun shines. But we’re now entering the narrow planting window for autumn sown crops and our warehouse is ...

We have now filtered our first harvest of honey to remove any impurities, and after being allowed to settle for a week, the honey has been put into jars. We have chosen not to heat treat or pasteurise Honeydale Honey, so it will be raw and contain all of it's natural goodness. Although ...

Red Clover can be sown unitl mid-September. Without nitrogen fertiliser, red clover leys produce a protein-rich 15t DM per hectare.With its high yielding ability, forage quality and suitability for silage, red clover swards could play an increasingly important role in sustainable systems of ...

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 ...