Field & Land Use Plan @ Church Farm 2013
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Church Farm 2013 outline plans 170 acres Approx 40 Acres Permanent Grass 70 Acres Herbal Leyy / Pigs g / Arable Rotation Orchards, Vegetables & Soft Fruit 20 acres 6 Woods 4 Ponds total of 40 acres
Livestock Production 50 Cattle 180 Sheepp + Lambs 18 Sows 3 Boars & 120 Growers Poultry 250 Turkeys y 50 Geese 80 Grower Chickens per week 50 Ducks 600 Laying Hens
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MANURE ALL VEG – LIME but not Spuds Manure then on handy corner.
GRAZING HAYLAGE 2013 haylage sheep
sheep clean pasture 4 lambs
Cattle bulls
Cattle sheep
/ sheep
Youngstock cattle /
Haylage sheep winter
cattle
Haylage /sheep winter
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Seeding Plan – Wildlife Nectar Sqquash Pumpkins etc
Grass Pollen & Nectar 10kg / ha in 10kg bag – 2.5 acres LAYERS / 2 HUTS
Meadow Fescue : Tall Oat Grass : Cocksfoot : Timothy : Tall Fescue : Sainfoin, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Vetch, Aslike, Red Clover, Clover Yellow Trefoil, Trefoil Knapweeed Knapweeed, Musk Mallow. Drilled ¼ inch in March /April
Pi Pigs
SSheep eep LAMBING G PENSS
Bird Feed Mix : End April. 6 acres seed on 4acres in total drilled top of ridges Sunflowers 10kg 2 acre 4inch Peas/Barley Mix 1 acre 2inch Quinoa 6kg 0.5 acre ¼ inch Phalecia 3kg 1 acre ¼ inch Millet 10kg 2 acre ¼ inch
Catch Cropping / Tactical / Broadcast Mustard 10kg 1 acres Stubble Turnips 1 acres 5kg 4
Seeding Plan – Wildlife Nectar Raddish Brassicas mpkins etc Pum
Grass Pollen & Nectar 10kg / ha in 10kg bag – 2.5 acres LAYERS / 2 HUTS
Meadow Fescue : Tall Oat Grass : Cocksfoot : Timothy : Tall Fescue : Sainfoin, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Vetch, Aslike, Red Clover, Clover Yellow Trefoil, Trefoil Knapweeed Knapweeed, Musk Mallow. Drilled ¼ inch in March /April
Pi Pigs
Bird Feed Mix : End April. 4 acres in total drilled 3x on top of ridges Sunflowers 2.5kg 0.5 acre 4inch Peas/Barley Mix 1 acre 2inch Quinoa 6kg 0.5 acre ¼ inch Phalecia 3kg 1 acre ¼ inch Millet 5kg 1 acre ¼ inch
Catch Cropping / Tactical / Broadcast Mustard 10kg 1 acres Stubble Turnips 1 acres 5
Poultry Pigs Sweetcorn Bird Food - Brassica
Ducks
2250 sq m sweatcorn
Reseed track
Turkeys200 28 may
Geese june 40
1 acre bird seed
Layers
Growing chickens Turkeys Guinea Fowl Older Geese
Move hut here to home field
Move 1 x shed M h d and d create t 2 large shelters for turkeys and new pens
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Potatoes – 4 tonnes Seed 1x tonne of Lady Balfour 2x tonne of Cara 1x tonne of King Edwards
15m x 150m =2250m 2250m
CROPPING TYPE
PLANTIN HARVEST HARVEST FROM G TIME DATE DATE WINDOW WINDOW
First early potatoes
End of Late May 10-12 weeks February until to to early July April
Second early Early potatoes March to end of April
July to early October
13 weeks
Early maincrop potatoes
March to May
August to 15 weeks October
Maincrop potatoes
March to May
Septembe 20 weeks r to late October
Second cropping potatoes
August
November 11 weeks
40m x 200m =8000sqm 8000
0.8
2250
0.225
4375
0.4375
2 grt field top 0.5625 grt field side 1.09375 veg field
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Great Field / Squitmore Potatoes 15m x 150m =2250m
Feed the cattle
Cattle Strip Graze Finishers
Potatoes 40m x 200m =8000sqm
1pig pen rest and reseed Mustard / rye
Space 2 pens feed the pigs points
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Mega-Raised Bed Tomatoes / Courgettes/ Marrows Use 24 Big Bales Making mega raised bed of matured muck / compost 2metres Compost p / Rotted Manure Deep p 5m x 20m 2 rows of crop Polythene / drip tape to get started p Tunnel Make Hooped ?Build ASAP? Plant APRIL
Also move fence in Orchard this year and all birds out Make Grower ppens on edge g
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Walnut Orchard Variety Plan VICARAGE FIELD A
B
C
D
E
F
G
GATE current duck enclosure 18
replace
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Protect
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Protect
16 15
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14 13
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12 11
G GATE 10
replace
9 8
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7 6
replace replace Ronde
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5
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4
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3 2
GATE
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GATE
Need : 9 Fernor : 7 Lara : 3 Rita : 1 Ronde de Montignac
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Field Veg Seeds &Home Field Plan
Layers Grower chickens
pigs
R Reseed d
pigs
pigs
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Kitchen Garden & Polytunnel Cropping 2013 Kitchen Garden Forest garden patch
Strawberries
Strawberries
Honeoye (early)
Albion
Rhubarb Timperely Early, Champagne and Raspberry Red
Tunnel 1 Herbs:Basil turnips in jan , Dill , Dill, Coriander, Fennel, Chervil, Parsley, Mizuna / Mibuna Carrots (from feb) Spring Cabbage Carrots (from feb) Turnips Milan White (feb) Radish / Spring onions
Strawberries Leeks early and late varieties Calabrese Nine Star / Purple Cape intercrop with salad onions half bed Globe Artichokes Carrots Good King Henry Spinach Autum / Winter Calabrese and PSB (what to plant before? More legumes?) Lettuce mixed varieties intercrop with Radish "Rudolph" Spicy Salads (Mizuna, Mibuna, Rocket) Garlic plant autumn 2012: Courgettes Courgettes various saladings: Lettuce Heads intercrop with Radish "Rudolph" Shallots various saladings intercrop with Radish "Rudolph" Rudolph SHallots Peas / Beans Oriental Brassicas: Pak Choi Bok Choi Chinese Cabbage Beetroot Detroit, Golden Detroit, Jannis Beetroot Detroit, Golden Detroit, Jannis celariac half bed Autumn / Winter: Savoy, January King and Red Cabbage Early bean crop Autumn / Winter Caulifloer Snoball, Romanesco, and Graffiti Early Pea Crop Cauliflower Snowball (maybe if can get hold of) Cauliflower Romanesco Swede Brora, Helenor, Ruby Turnips Milan White/Milan Purple Top Lettuce mixed varieties Spicy Salads Blackberries Blackberries
Tayberries
Black currants Black currants Red currants Red currants
Bay - Lemon Balm
Tunnel 2 Salads Salads SAlads Salads Salads
Toms Berner Rose Toms Chadwick Toms St Pierre Toms San Marzano Tom Golden Sunrise
Peas / beans Peas / beans Peas / beans Peas / beans Peas / beans
Tunnel 3 Broad Beans
Dwarf French
Chards
Salads Salads Salads Broad Beans
Climbing French Climbing French Climbing French Dwarf French
Chards Spinach Lettuce Lettuce
Tunnel 4 Chilli Peppers, Early Jalapeno/Ring o Fire/Red Cherry Sweet Peppers LR Marconi Marconi, Gilboa Sweet Peppers Yolo Wonder, Fiesta follow with winter lettuce Aubergine Black Beauty Celery Tunnel 5 Spring Cabbage Carrots carrots
Mints
Sages Oregano / Marjoram Borage Parsley patch Thymes blue Lavenders Flower Bed: Spring / Summer bulbs
Chives Borage - white
Spring Onions, cress, ransoms
Courgettes Courgettes Cucumbe Picolino Crystal Lemon
Florence Fennel Lavenders, tarragon
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Vicars Soft Fruit GATE Blackberry Chester x 12 plants.
REPLACE
Blackberry Chester x 21
Blackberries and Hybrids: Chester x 5,, Apache p x 3,, Loch Tayy x 15,,
Blackberry Apache x28 Blackberry Loch Tay x 33 Tayberry x 12
Tayberry x 5, Loganberry x 3.
Blackberry Loch Tay x 22 Tayberry x30 Loganberry x 30
Raspberries:
Summer Raspberry Glen Ample x 95
Glen Ample x 215, Tadmor x 298,
Summer Raspberry Glen Ample x 95 Summer Raspberry Glen Ample x 95
Tulameen x 45, Glen Lyon x 79.
Summer Raspberry Tadmor x 95
I suggest replacing Glen Lyon with Glen
Summer Raspberry Tadmor x 95 Summer Raspberry Tadmor x 95
Moy, Tadmor with more Tulameen, and
Summer Raspberry Tadmor x 95 Summer Raspberry Tulameen x 95
Glen Ample with Malling Jewel.
Summer Raspberry Tulameen x 95
Gooseberries:
Summer Raspberry Tulameen x 95 Summer Raspberry Glen Lyon x 95
Hinnomakki Green x 2
p y Glen Lyon y x 95 Summer Raspberry
Autumn Raspberries Polka x 84 Autumn Raspberries Polka x 84 Autumn Raspberries Polka x 84 Autumn Raspberries Polka x 84 Autumn Raspberries Polka x 84 oseberry Hinnomakki Green
Autumn Raspberries Polka x 53
Gooseberries Hinnomakki Green x40 Gooseberries Hinnomaki Yellow x 20, H.Green x 20 Gooseberries Hinnomaki Yellow x 40 Gooseberries Hinnomakki Yellow x 20, H. Red x 20
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Vicars Orchard Varieties Take out middle Fencing this year – remove poultry going forward- audit.
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