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Feeding the Farm Birds
Last job of the day as the darkness approaches all too quickly. The third year of a two farm experiment on the effects of supplementary winter feeding of farmland birds. In ...
Hungry Birds
When our bird expert, Dr Richard K Broughton, came to Honeydale just before Christmas, he noted that the main birdfood/bumblebird plots had been almost exhausted, so the 250 ...
Busy September at Honeydale
As we head into Autumn, there’s been plenty going on at Honeydale Farm.
Mid-September, we drilled mustard into the control plots of spring barley as a cover crop. This is a ...
End of Summer
The last few weeks have been very busy ones at Honeydale. Not only have we been haymaking and harvesting but we’ve also been progressing with plans for the development of ...
Honeydale Bird Report 2017
The latest bird report from Honeydale is available to view and as you'll see, things are still on the up and up in terms of species diversity and overall numbers, although there ...
Keep Feeding the Birds
With spring rapidly springing, our bird expert Richard Broughton came to conduct a survey at Honeydale last week to check up on how the winter feeding programme is going and he ...
Bird Numbers Soaring
The bird species count at Honeydale is rising. Elliot is still supplementary feeding with 10kg of seed every day, and this week he spotted a woodcock, a native farmland bird ...
Winter Snack Bar for Birds Open at Honeydale
The weather has certainly turned colder and Honeydale's bird enthusiast, Elliot, has been continuing with the supplementary winter bird feeding at a rate of 10kg a day, which ...
Hungry Birds
Mid-winter and with a cold spell forecast, Elliot is about to start daily feeding at a rate of 10kg per day from next week, to make sure the farm birds at Honeydale have plenty ...
Supplementary Farmland Bird Feeding Project: Winter 2016
In partnership with other Oxfordshire farms, we’re conducting an experiment over the next few months to determine the best way to provide food to support farmland birds ...
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It's always been part of our vision to have a farm as an extension of the Cotswold Seeds business and in 2013 we bought Honeydale Farm, one hundred acres in the Cotswolds. During the past couple of years we've been making huge progress on the farm and this blog was set up to share this progress with our friends in the farming world.