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Welcome to this month’s newsletter! We got amongst the dirt and in amongst the greenhouses in July; focusing on improving soil biological activity and managing...

Can compost tea be used as an effective way to enhance soil microbiology as a microbial inoculant in an organic arable system? Compost tea and...

A probiotic approach to soil & plant health at Ragmans Farm.

A healthy soil is vital to ensure both high yields and future high yields, as well as environmental protection - there are no negative consequences...

Jez Taylor, Head of the Daylesford Market Garden, talks about pest and disease management in Solanums. He begins in a polytunnel containing peppers, chillies and...

What do you know? What would you like to know?... Agroforestry is on the up. Following the success of the national Agroforestry Conference at Cranfield...

Slugs, slugs and more slugs! Some farming activities can encourage them more than others, and the seemingly ever increasing unpredictable weather patterns also add to...

Welcome to this month’s newsletter! Much of the content this month has been focused on what farmers are doing in the field; demonstrating examples of...

Louise King, Reserve Manager at Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust 's Chimney Meadows Nature Reserve , explains how they are using low-input livestock breeds...

As the summer solstice arrives we reach the year’s climax with a burst of life. The white of flowering clover drifts across the leys, dog...

This month Richard explains how a sustainable dairy cow has been bred at Daylesford. Richard explains that modern, intensive dairy cattle are not so well...

Would you eat an endangered species? For most people the answer would be a horrified “no!” but in my work with the UK’s endangered farm...

Now growing at over 7% year-on-year, the organic market has entered its fifth consecutive year of steady growth. Organic meat has also grown over the...

Organic Research Centre! We are partners in NOCC 2017 - National Organic Combinable Crops - OF&G ’s flagship event, which is the largest UK on-farm...

Tim Field explains what Daylesford Farm is doing to help bees. At the end of May/beginning of June the bees start to swarm, and at...

Sky-high land and rural housing costs, alongside planning red tape, have proved almost insurmountable barriers for new would-be farmers. But the Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC)...

For hundreds of years we have thought that bees are important for pollinating apples, but is this actually true? I have worked in apple orchards...

Listening to a Gardener’s Question Time programme recently, I heard a lady ask the experts why her shrubs are not flowering as expected: "I prune...

This month Richard explains the process of making sainfoin silage at Daylesford. Starting off in the field he describes how the crop has been established...

The current buzz As I write this, the European Commission is considering whether to extend the current partial ban on neonicotinoid insecticides (neonics) - introduced...