• June 2009
    Our Carbon Footprint One of the challenges for farmers over the next few years will be how they adapt their businesses to Climate Change. Farming contributes 8% of the UK's Greenhouse Gas emissions including...
  • July 2009
    First Breeding Barn Owls A great story to start this post and a first for the farm. We have added barn owls to the list of birds that have breed at the farm. This makes it the third species of owl...
  • Birdcrime 2009
    Today we are publishing our annual report on crimes against birds - covering the year 2009. Nice report - sorry tale! In a foreword by Chief Constable Richard Crompton, the Association of Chief...
  • August 2009
    Wheat Harvest A couple of day's frantic activity is coming to the end. It took all of seven hours for the contractor to harvest the wheat on Monday. With two combines, it is over before you know it...
  • May 2009
    Birds With the breeding season well under way, 2009 has started positively. The migrants started arriving in the middle of April with early sightings of wheatears, swallows, whitethroats and lesser whitethroats...