November 2019
Harvesting Organic Onions
The harvest conditions for our first crop of organic onions grown on the farm has been challenging with the wet and cold conditions. We have windrowed these and made the [...]
October 2019
Drilling Organic Winter Wheat
The wet weather has delayed our drilling but we made a start last week when we had a break in the weather. We drill later than some farms as the [...]
Harvesting Organic Cauliflower
Cauliflower harvest is now nearing the end but the crop we are cutting here is of great quality. The variety is Skywalker and it shows a wonderful white curd that [...]
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 [...]