Forming the beds
Cultivating the Fields
Bringing in the ewes
Sowing
Spring fever
After another long and cold winter, the warmer weather is thankfully here, and we are at last getting onto the fields to get the ground ready for this years crops.
The team have been very busy preparing the ground, which includes working through a traditional process of ploughing, cultivation and then sowing. On the cereal side, the peas and wheat fields have already been sown and we are now working on the spring barley.
Preparation is well underway for the vegetable crops too, the potatoes are in the ground and when the de-stoning and bed forming process is complete we will be sowing the carrots and parsnips in early May. Then with the help of warmer weather and the occasional! rain shower - the growing process starts.
Along with the daffodils and birdsong comes the bleating of spring lambs. A few have already arrived and we will be lambing over 280 ewes indoors this year, with Brian keeping a canny eye on the arrivals in the maternity ward. When all is well with mother and her new lamb they go out to the fields to enjoy the spring grass.
Once the ground has been prepared, sowing is the final part of the spring ground work. The machine sowing the seeds is calibrated to allow an exact quantity of seeds per hectare of ground. Cerials and vegetables are grown on a rotational basis which helps the ground retain the nutrients required for good yeilds.
It is a very busy time on the farm and we are looking forward to a good growing season and producing tasty organic vegetables for our customers.
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