Category: Friesland Farm

Early Spring and the weather was an absolute treat, the farm was a hive of activity, jobs such as dragging one of the fields and the ménage ment the tractor was in operation which was great fun. My aim at this time of year is to tidy up the front of the property ready for…

At last I have drawn up the crop rotation plan, I keep all the previous years so that I can determine what needs to go where, I follow a three year rotation and so need to look at the two years previous in order to plan this year. It is now pinned up in the…

February has finally arrived, the shortest month on the calender, but physcologically the longest month of the year! Why? because we get a glimpse of things to come when the Sun peeps through but its far too early to begin any preparations for sowing, there is always a chance that the weather will bite you…

Well Blue Monday came and went, to be honest I can’t see what is so depressing about it, at least we are on the right side of the year for a return of Spring 🙂 We have plenty of signs that the circle of life is continuing, the bulbs are beginning to push their way…

Well I haven’t blogged for ages, the new year seems a good place to start again, I will try and blog once a fortnight depending on what there is to say, once a week is too much and by the time once a month comes round I have forgotten everything 😉 We are in the…

Today seems like a good day to blog after being absent for a while, we have had a long and glorious Summer and so no complaints in that department, however the Winter has arrived and there seems to be no let up in the downpours and the subsequent mud! Not much is different since the…

Originally posted on frieslandfarm (flowers): Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while but to be quite honest I couldn’t be bothered! I was a the point where I was just writing the same old stuff over and over, well it felt like it anyway, an attitude adjustment was needed I decided, but which direction to…

Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while but to be quite honest I couldn’t be bothered! I was a the point where I was just writing the same old stuff over and over, well it felt like it anyway, an attitude adjustment was needed I decided, but which direction to move in is the dilemma.…

September 1st already, where has the year gone? The nights are drawing in again, the early morning and evening temperatures are dropping and we are grateful to see any Sun at this time of year. It’s been a funny year for growing here on the farm, I know others have struggled too. Most things were…

I have managed to find a spare minute to blog! It’s been pretty hectic on the farm for various reasons over the last couple of weeks, firstly I turned into my half century year, oh my goodness, where have 50 years gone 🙂 We celebrated in style with a party in the paddock, rock band,…