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.

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Friday, 6 May 2011

Cider fruit in blossom

This is not a photo from our farm but Herefordshire and Gloucestershire orchards are full of blossom - just beautiful.

Friday, 3 April 2009

More blossom photos

Spring flowers and blossom

The farm is abundant with spring flowers and blossom - so beautiful.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Spring has finally arrived

The trees and hedges have thickened out in the last ten days and Spring has finally arrived. It is still quite cold if you are in the wind, but nature seems to be revolving. The lilac has bloomed and started to lose its colour and the apple blossom has gone too. The walnut tree seems to be the last tree to gain its leaves. Tonight when I was in the garden I heard the cuckoo.

Saturday, 1 March 2008

Spring blossom

Rather a strange sight - blossom but no leaves? I have tulips in flower; daffodils in abundance and it is the end of February!

Friday, 27 April 2007

Blossom everywhere

The farm is alive with blossom - check out these photos!

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.