A new range of complex grass seed mixtures for the equine market has been developed to help combat some of the most common health issues affecting horses, including laminitis, gastric ulcers, developmental orthopedic disease, stereotypical behaviours and wormer resistance. The new range includes ...

The No Till Crimper Roller is standard farm machinery in arable America but as far as we are aware our experiment at Honeydale Farm this weekend is among the first times that one has been used in the UK. As the name implies, the Crimper Roller offers a way of terminating cover crops with no till; ...

Last week we reported that the bees at Honeydale were behaving rather strangely with one hive bursting with bees and the bees in the second hive preparing to swarm. Paul’s beekeeping mentor Chris Wells has now been to assess the situation which has moved on a pace. The hive that was ...

We have planned an eight year rotation at Honeydale.  For the first four of these years, the land will be given over to leys, so our first job this spring with the ley (a fertility building herbal ley) has been to fence the eight acre field for mob (cell) grazing. The benefits of mob grazing ...

The Sainfoin Growers’ Guide is available to order or download. Following on from the EU-funded LegumePlus project, it outlines the many benefits of growing sainfoin and represents the first practical approach for cultivation, focused on building a bridge between the latest advances in science ...