Daylesford Foundation

As part of #OrganicSeptember campaign, Daylesford Organic have been running a ‘Future of Food’ series, featuring interviews with thought leaders in the food, ecology and agriculture industries. In this video, Tim Field speaks with Henry Dimbleby MBE, author of the National Food Strategy, British businessman, cookery writer, and co-founder of Leon Restaurants and The Sustainable […]

Jez Taylor, head of the diverse market garden at Daylesford Organics talks to us about managing the greenfly on the roses they supply to the florists. Ready to apply soapy water, he notices signs of natural predation taking place, showing us some ladbybird larvae. He has some interesting observations in relation to water stress…

Wildflower meadows are an intrinsic part of our natural heritage and have been in decline over the last century. The rich flora and fauna provide an abundance of colour, a buzz of insects, and support a multitude of native species from butterflies to migrating birds and other wildlife. Daylesford’s Tim Field talks us through the […]

‘Our solutions are in nature’ – a concept at the core of sustainable farming practices and the theme of 2020’s UN International Day for Biodiversity. We are all dependent on healthy, vibrant ecosystems, and farming with nature that uses practices to give back to the land for future generations is part of this solution. The […]

      This is one of a series of interviews Daylesford’s Tim Field has been conducting on the topic of sustainable food and farming. Tim speaks to Colin Tudge and Ruth West, co-founders of The Campaign for Real Farming and organisers of the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference. They talk about their motivations for […]

Compost can improve soil fertility through supplying mineral fertilisers such as potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen and it can help to strongly influence the soil carbon storage which is also an important factor of soil fertility. Jez Taylor, head of the market garden at Daylesford Organic Farm shares his recipe for making compost. He talks us […]

In these short video clips, Jez Taylor, head of the Market Garden at Daylesford Organic Farm, talks to us from inside the polytunnels about propagating tomatoes, peppers, chillies, mixed leaf salads, carrots, radishes and climbing beans as they ramp up their efforts to provide fresh vegetables and salad to as many people as possible in […]

In this vlog, Richard Smith, Farms Manager at Daylesford Organic, talks about cattle foot trimming in the dairy, stressing the importance of doing it at least once a year. Cows feet becoming sore or lame has a big effect on production and welfare. Cows are cloven hooved; they have two claws that need to work […]

In this month’s Agricology vlog, Richard Smith talks to us about scanning 1,200 Lleyn sheep at Daylesford Organic Farm with Bob Tofield. He looks at how the quality and quantity of rationing is managed according to the results of the scan. He also talks about the benefits of shearing and housing his sheep in the […]

Richard Smith, Farms Manager for Daylesford Organic, explains how they rear their Friesian calves at Daylesford. This includes having a calf stay with its mum for 6 days – which allows it to take as much colostrum as it likes from its mum and gives it a fantastic start. Calves also have fresh clean barley […]

Richard Smith of Daylesford Organic Farms talks about grass leys and how they put them into stubble, and undersowing grass leys into cereal crops. He explains how they’ve sown the grass seed on a farm they’ve just taken on – where they’ve had to lightly cultivate the topsoil due to not being able to go […]

Richard Smith, Farms Manager at Daylesford Organic Farm discusses how he is converting a conventional arable field into a grass and clover ley for livestock and the reasons for doing it.