Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Rural Life on May 4th, 2012
Time for a Spring update. Lambing is just about over with only a few stragglers left to lamb. Luckily the bulk of our outdoor lambing took place in early April when the weather was fine and dry. Because it is an outdoor lambing system we have not had an exact count but think that we have around 300 [...]
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Posted in Farming, Food, Life, Politics, Rural Life on Mar 1st, 2012
Here at Horton Park Farm we feed organic red clover silage through the winter to the cattle in the shed. This silage is harvested and stored in the large clamps two or three times a year. Last year’s silage was made in two batches, June and October. Depending on the analysis of the crop we [...]
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