Or more specifically fertilizing! Tom and Peter have been busy over the last week getting the first application of fertilizer over the crops to kick start them into growing [...]

the sheep are munchin’,  the grain sheds are emptyin’, birds are being fed and farmers are catching up on office work. The sheep are doing a great job of [...]

Crops are looking good, there’s even been some audacious comments about how good the wheat looks compared to this time in other years (all the more room for future [...]

…..if you’re doing it right…..sort of. The crops are all in and have had a bit of nice rain and all is looking well! Better enjoy it. There is [...]

.....(or planting if you’re a normal person) crops. The big question to answer is when. Drilling later in October is better for weed control (because you can let the [...]

starting on the 1st July, finishing on the 7th August. There were a couple of dodgy weeks in the middle where we actually had some rain which stopped play, [...]

Sun is shining, crops are ready and combines are rolling, harvest is officially ON. No time for harvest twitch this year as we started on the 1st July, the [...]

Okay, its not your classic headline, but that would be ours for this month! Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Family Farm Safari in May [...]

Thank you so much to the 60(!!!) parents and children who came out on a sunny Saturday morning to walk about the farm, learn more about the crops and [...]

What a treat the last six weeks have been. A more straightforward spring we cannot remember. Of course, there was the awkward moment when we thought it was “too [...]

cultivating (preparing the ground for planting crops), drilling (planting crops), fertilizing (feeding crops) and spraying (protecting from pests). The glorious weather has put everyone in a good mood and [...]

Tom has been out busy fertilizing the crops to kick start them into action and get growing! As well as water and sunshine, crops need nitrogen, phosphorous and potash [...]

The farm is still in hibernation mode with stuff sitting quite still over the winter months but generally everything is looking okay. The Jack First we have had over [...]

“frustration” (that’s a polite term for f…… absolutely furious) about the changes brought about in the budget. The frustration has been channeled into marches – the one on the [...]

Crops are largely in, weather has been largely kind and stuff is mostly just getting on with growing. Which has given us and all farmers a lot of headspace [...]

And all the excitement that goes with it. This year, it was exciting. And wet. “Biblical” amounts of September rain got everyone a bit tense. The village where I [...]

Harvest is done and dusted and the Harvest Twitch a distant memory (having been replaced by the “Field Prep Panic”) but I know you’re all here for the stats, [...]

The “Harvest Twitch” has well and truly set in. Symptoms include: excessive washing of the combine harvester, constant grain testing with the moisture meter, phoning other farmers to compare [...]

Quite a lot of rain for June, and not the warmest…! But that is (nearly!) all forgotten as I sit here on a sunny Thursday morning in 20 degrees! [...]

Spirits are high, crops are growing, the requested week of sun alternating with the week of showers has happened over the last month, its all looking up. And, every [...]

Farming has been back on at Meads farm this month. Fertiliser has been going on and crops have been growing. Despite all the weather, the crops planted in autumn [...]

Still wet. Still muddy. Still grumpy farmers. This is not just a Cambridgeshire problem, for anyone travelling around the country, no doubt you will have seen quite a lot [...]

Still quite a quiet time on the farm in February, especially such a wet February! Not a lot of farming to be done when it is so wet and [...]

Happy New Year, everyone! And hasn’t it been a wet and cold one so far! Not a lot of farmin’ happening over the last few weeks, quite a lot [...]

Hedges Hedges HEDGES! Sorry if I sound overexcited, it's because I am. We have had 900m of new hedges planted on the farm this month! If you are walking [...]

November brings the beginning of the slightly quieter period on the farm. All the crops are planted and we are waiting for them to get established and grow a [...]

Here marks the beginning of the farming year at Meads Farm as we start planting the crops. So with the start of the year, comes the first (of many) [...]