Garlic coming along nicely while snow piles up outside the tunnels... indoors garlic will be in June veg boxes to help bridge the ‘hungry gap’

Farm surf farm repeat kind of day 🏄🏼‍♂️

Tastiest apricot ever! Pity there’s only 2, must be more diligent with the hand pollination next year.

Phaselia patch is buzzing. Spot the hover fly too!

More phacelia, also red and white clover, chicory and grass in there. After years of veg cropping it’s fertility building time!

Cells are filling up with phacelia pollen and honey 🍯👍🤞

It’s peak midge, on Skye last week end they were covering the van windscreen, then the wiper mashed them and another wave came. Didn’t get out.

Veg boxes get the turnips, lambs get the tops!

Spot the red kite who stopped in for a worm snack! Anyone know what the blue wing tag means?

It’s not all veg here, there’s 28 ewes too, here grazing down an area of fertility building pasture. In a few years this area will be back into veg growing.

This 4 acre reseed had forage rape then overwinter rye & finally oats/peas arable silage undersown with herbal ley in June, just before months of no rain. Pics show difference between normally wet & dry areas.

A ‘superschmelz’ kohlrabi anomaly, all the rest were normal size

January king cabbages in the large boxes this week, I forgot to order the celery. Always good to have a backup!

Broccoli cala-freeze kind of morning...

Frosty mornings in the cabbage family zone... brussels, kales, purple sprouting broccoli

Geese chased off next door, land, get chased off, come back. Repeat. Noisy day here!

Ewes and tup filling tums pre-snow. 290 bales made in summer, using 2/day Dec-March = 240 so all good I think!

A hot afternoon back in July & the baler getting it’s 2 hours of annual glory.

Sowing & planting season 2025 is well underway with radish & pakchoi planted, beds of rocket & salads sown & lots of over wintered salads being harvested (all in the tunnels, it is the north of Scotland after all!).