The Hummingbird Hawk-Moth. I've only seen these twice before, but the same day that I read they are popping up in many a garden this yea...

April was extremely dry and cold. May was extremely wet, but the last week at least saw temperatures rising.  This has made for an insanely ...

With the temperature nudging up very close to 100 a week or so back, insect life on the farm has been abundant. The leek heads and umbellife...

Saturday 5th January 2019 A while ago I wrote that I try to notice something nature-related, however small, every day on the smallholding. ...

Sunday 27th May 2018 With Sue's rapidly expanding apiary, I spent some of the morning knocking up some new brood frames and a new b...

28th August 2016 Little chicks set loose into big wide world The little chickens, destined for the table, were let out of their pen today ...