December 2019
Pollybell Farm Awarded Innovation of the Year Award
Pollybell Farms are the proud recipients of the Farm Innovation of the Year Award at this year’s Food and Farming Industry Awards for founding and funding of agri-tech start up, [...]
Drilling Organic Winter Wheat
In this video you will see the team cultivating and drilling some of our Winter Wheat. You will notice at the end of the video we change tactics for drilling [...]
Drilling Winter Wheat – Challenging Conditions
Due to the challenging conditions recently, Jonny and Barry are ploughing and drilling organic winter wheat (cougar) with our power harrow drill.
November 2019
Making the most of our Organic Broccoli
A few weeks ago we posted photos showing some of our broccoli harvest in action. The same field is now being utilised by our spring lambs, ensuring there is little [...]
Harvesting Organic Cabbage in Challenging Conditions
When the conditions in the fields are not ideal for our tractors and trailers, we have to be creative with our solutions. Here you can see a Yanmar tracked dumper [...]
Flowering Margins
Here is a photo that was taken a few weeks back. You can see our autumn drilled field margins are now well established and we see they are already being [...]
SSSI Wetland
Here is an update of our SSSI Wetland that has recently undergone a lot of restoration work. The management of this temporary wetland provides habitats for wading birds, swans and [...]
74mm of rain in 48 hours
This past week has been eventful for the veg team with 74mm of rain in 48 hours. We’ve unfortunately had to call a halt on harvesting of veg due to [...]
Harvesting Organic Broccoli
After a challenging season the broccoli harvest is close to finishing in the next couple of weeks. Our harvesting teams have worked tirelessly to ensure all the broccoli is harvested [...]
Grazing organic sheep on brassica stalks
When we have finished harvesting our brassica vegetables the leaves and stalks left behind don’t go to waste. We graze them down with sheep which gives us a good food [...]