We’re delighted to be able to provide a very positive news update on our barn owls. Two chicks in the Honeydale Farm nest box have now been ringed by Pat and Albert of the barn owl team of the Wychwood Project. They’re quite different sizes, with one much larger and therefore probably ...

The Cotswold Seeds team were at the NSA’s annual Sheep Event at the Three Counties Showground yesterday. We were giving hourly overseeding demonstrations with the Aitchison seed drill we purchased for Honeydale Farm, explaining how overseeding is a cheap, simple and effective way to ...

Delighted to report that, excitingly, we extracted the very first batch of honey from one of our original, and very full, Honeydale Farm hives (known as hive 1) this weekend.A few days prior to extracting honey, it’s necessary to reduce the number of bees in the supers that are to be removed. ...

We'll be at the NSA's Sheep Event at the Three Counties Show Ground tomorrow. Macca is also there with his sheep. Ian and Sam will be giving overseeding demonstrations and workshops and we've goodie bags to give away with pick'n'mix sweets rather than seeds! Come along and say ...

When we carried out our weekly inspection of the seven hives at Honeydale Farm we made some exciting discoveries. Hive two is doing well. Although the bees have not really started to fill their first super, the queen is laying eggs and bee numbers look good. Hive 1 is doing so well that ...