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.

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

New arrivals at the farm

Saturday, 23 July 2016

Range of foods at Legges of Bromyard

Saturday, 16 July 2016

Too much tea for discussions on food policy?

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Tiddlers have grown!

Saturday, 2 July 2016

Sheep relaxing in the fields

Saturday, 25 June 2016

Abervale meat in Waitrose

We are trying to produce this quality of meat with our breeding plan ...

Saturday, 18 June 2016

Double yokers from the hens from the neighbouring farm ..

Saturday, 11 June 2016

Suffolk I met on a walk

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Lambs looking well

Saturday, 28 May 2016

Evening splendour at Harper Adams

I was leaving a little late ..

Saturday, 7 May 2016

Tiddlers are growing up ...

Saturday, 30 April 2016

Lambing in full swing

Saturday, 23 April 2016

New milk machine for the lambs

Saturday, 16 April 2016

First tiddlers

Thursday, 24 March 2016

First lambs

Friday, 11 March 2016

Nuffield CSC in Ireland

Had a great week in Cavan Ireland at the Nuffield International Contemporary Scholars Conference

Friday, 4 March 2016

Fresh food display - Kensington

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Adding vegetables to the menu

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Adding low calorie vegetable products to the menu

Saturday, 9 January 2016

New job at Harper Adams University

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.