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 ...

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 ...