Farmer Richard Blog

Well Its Sunday 13th September 11pm and I am just about to start my eighth week as farm manager, the time has just flown by but haven’t had a chance to think about it as we’ve been so busy. In the last eight weeks we have knocked in over two hundred fence posts put up eight and a half kilometres of fencing wire taken delivery of a thousand free range hens and currently we are three days into our wheat harvest. The summer has finally arrived this last week and despite being about two months late we are making the most of the sunshine. This week (weather permitting) should see us harvest all 170 acres of wheat and bale the wheat straw for using in our nesting boxes.
Working late this week gave me the chance to see a beautiful sunset from the top of Penlan Isaf overlooking Kidwelly and out to sea one of the perks of this job. Another perk is being surrounded by wildlife today we were joined on the harvest by a buzzard scouting around and swooping ten feet away looking for field mice no doubt. There is also lots of insect activity this time of year and the wild flower margins planted earlier this year are working well with bees, butterflies and lots of ladybirds attracted by the flowers.

Farmer Richard Blog - Sept