October 2019
Late Flowering Sunflowers
Some wonderful later flowering sunflowers in one of our wild bird covers beginning to stand to attention this morning. A welcomed break to brighten up the day after the incessant [...]
Creating Wildlife Corridors
To help us visualise the size and scale of managing our farmed environment it helps if we take a birds eye view across different parts of the farm. In our [...]
Organic Lamb Grading & Clipping at Pollybell Farm
Following on from the post a few weeks ago. Here is a video of John and Harry selecting lambs that are above 46kg and with the correct amount of flesh [...]
Organic Flowering Margin
Our mature autumn flowering margins on one of our farms has really come into its own this last 10 days. This provides a great source of cover from predatory species [...]
Drilling Grass Clover Ley
Here is Jonny drilling one of these fields. We mainly use a grass clover ley which provides suitable grazing for both the sheep we have on the farm and areas [...]
September 2019
Ploughing in preparation for the drilling of new grass
Jonny is ploughing in preparation for the drilling of new grass here. We use a 2 year grass lay within an organic rotation as an opportunity to rest the soils [...]
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
Pollybell have now entered into a new Countryside Stewardship Scheme that sees us dedicate a proportion of the farm to further enhancing the natural environment we are custodians of. We [...]
Selecting Organic Lambs
We are picking lambs that are above 46kg and with the correct amount of flesh cover so that we make sure that we get the most out of our lambs [...]
Our New Design Organic Veg Box’s For Our Wholesale Customers
Here at Pollybell we produce high quality organic vegetables and meat for both the UK supermarkets and wholesale markets. We have redesigned our boxes for our wholesale customers and we [...]
Earth Rover – Tractor Mounted Crop Scouting System
Pollybell are founding Members of Earth Rover and together we are working on A tractor-mounted scouting system to count, measure and map the crop during normal farm operations such as [...]