Cross-drilling experiment #1.. no/low herbicide trialling continues.. #RegerativeAgriculture #Farming #Oats #NotSoLowDisturbanceSubsoiling #INeedAMassage

The pre emergence control has been established. Hopefully they won’t persist post emergence or there’ll have to be some cultural control of the cultural control… #MoreOrganicThanOrganic #RegenerativeAgriculture #Farming

All drilled and rolled. Very happy and relieved, no compromising this autumn. All ground was sprayed off, subsoiled and Väderstad rapid drilled with front discs moving only an inch or two of soil in front on the coulters. It’ll get a second spray off in around a week (or as late

Went in the ground on Wednesday! #HarvestReady #Farming #OatPower

So down here in #SussexByTheSea bonfire season is in full swing. Last Saturday we marched in a nearby village’s celebrations and my eldest daughter Pearl won the best dressed badge carrier trophy! I’m extremely proud to be Chairman of East Hoathly and Halland Carnival Society but

Winter oats are up and away after 8 days! This little chap decided to keep his hat on in case of more showers.. #Farming #Harvest2025

With all cropping plans being decided weekly over the past two/three years and plans changing all the time I am grateful to currently still be on Plan A. By this time last year I think I was thinking of Plan B and by the spring was on Plan D and Plan G (I think) by harvest. All

This gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling. Growing oats is so pleasing as they’re a crop that seems to really want to grow. I hate the anxiety caused by the fragility of modern wheat varieties #GoOats #GrowOats #FOMOats

The cheese hound is getting bigger… #TheWifesDog #CouldPullAPlough #FarmingDogHesNot

Cross-drilling experiment.. this field was last to emerge, I assume due to added compaction from the drill? If the dry weather continues I may run through with the comb harrow with the oats now pretty much at two true leaves. It’s more exciting than I sound in the video! #Farming

Answers on a postcard for unheard of hedge laying styles to hide my attempts at relaying some recently created gaps.. Richard Negus I’m sure you have a list in your back pockets.. #HedgeLayingStyles #WonkyWeald #LazySussex #RusticConservation #ItWasLayedButVandalisedHonestly

Seed was drilled at an inch and half, so not sure how this ended so deep, but seen a few like this with two sets of roots! Maybe is prepared for a long wet winter! #Farming #WinterProofOats

Hello there! Some field caps munching down some compost spread earlier this autumn. Nice to know the soil is a safe haven to do what they do best and be able to sporulate too! #Farming #FungiFarming #RegenerativeAgriculture #FungiFriends

Have gone away for a few days to #FrenchFrance .. I did this last year after I finished drilling and felt a physical, mental and emotional weight lift. Everyone is busy and not everyone is able to take a break like this, but I urge everyone to try and do something that removes

I’m lucky enough to be chairman of our local village Carnival Society. We hold an event the Saturday before #Armistice each year since 1919 to remember the fallen from the village. It’s part of the Sussex bonfire calendar but due to our night being about Remembrance rather than

Bang goes the buckwheat! #FirstFrost #CompanionCropping #RegenerativeAgriculture

2011 and the supply chain was paying £220/ t for wheat. Now it’s £160 with food prices up 37% in the last four years who is making all the money? Society should be ashamed that food production is valued so lowly

Amazing noises as a charm of goldfinches munch their way through the seeds of an Empress tree RSPB #BirdsSeenIn2025 #TurnTheSoundUp

#Remembrance My grandfather was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army at the beginning of #WW1 from his homeland of the soon to be #Czechoslovakia (made possible by Thomas Masaryk). He was 20 years old. He and his friends didn’t want to fight for them or their German