Poultry Discussion

Why poultry discussion? Well we are chicken farmers and all too often when we talk with family and friends we start with talking about chickens then end up talking about anything from food and food safety, climate change, wildlife, birds, our farm. We started this blog to communicate what we are finding out about the world around us and how we try to farm in a sustainable way so that our farm is here not only for ourselves and our neighbours but for the future too.

Friday, 18 December 2015

My book chapter has been published!

Saturday, 19 September 2015

New tups on the farm - Kiwi boys in time for the world cup

Saturday, 15 August 2015

Bees enjoying the wild areas

Friday, 7 August 2015

Barley ready to harvest

Sunday, 2 August 2015

MacDonalds in Bratislava, Slovakia

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Paprika in Hungary

Sunday, 19 July 2015

Food market in Vienna

Sunday, 12 July 2015

Locks on the Danube

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Rhine valley

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Water management at Kinderdijk

Water management since the 1300s

Sunday, 14 June 2015

CSR talk in Toronto

Last week I had the opportunity to talk at a Corporate Social Responsibility Conference at Ryerson University, Toronto. Met some great people and learned so much!

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Happy Days

Sunday, 5 April 2015

Lambing has started!

Sunday, 29 March 2015

Happy calves!

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Fodder beet

Fodder beet in Hampshire - great farm visit

Sunday, 15 March 2015

All set up for a visiting group to the farm

Sunday, 8 March 2015

New arrivals

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Sheep awaiting April arrivals

Sunday, 22 February 2015

spring is coming

Sunday, 15 February 2015

Lichens

Monday, 2 February 2015

All a bit hectic

All been a bit hectic the last month so no posts... will be back with some photos soon

Saturday, 3 January 2015

Whole Foods

Took a trip to Whole Foods in Cheltenham to have a look at the marketing of the food - beautifully presented!

Hill Farm, Castle Frome, Herefordshire

Hill Farm is about 300 acres in size - an acre is about the area of a football pitch. This year we are growing feed wheat; winter beans, spring beans and oats. We also have 50 acres of woodland.

The wheat was planted in the autumn and will be harvested in August. We will feed the wheat to our chickens and sell some of the straw to other farmers who will probably use it for bedding for their livestock. We will bale some up for ourselves and chop the rest and incorporate (put it back) into the soil to improve soil structure. Beans were planted in the spring along with spring oats.

The woodland areas are traditional mixed woodland with conifers and areas of deciduous trees. There is a myriad of wildlife on the farm - mammals, birds, insects ... we will tell their story in this blog. They live in the woodland, fields, lakes, and streams. We hope that you will enjoy the story of our farm.