🌻Not all things are about the bottom line, sometimes you do things for beauty or nature

🌻 sunflower in a cover crop, there are plenty of out cheaper cover crop seeds around but this was worth it!

#covercrops #sunflower #baseireland #farmingfornature
@base.ireland @farmingfornature

Malting Season underway, which means brewing will be around the corner soon also!
This is some special organic heritage oats spread on the germination floor.
#malting #craftbeer #farmhouse #saisonbrewery #heritagegrain #oats #1574

Having a look at Galway Land Wheat and winter beans intercrop being grown in collaboration with Ailbhe Gerrard at Brookfield Farm. Here is hoping the tall straw rises above the meadow again
#galwaylandwheat #intercrop #beans #organicfarm #brookfieldfarm #flour #heritagegrain

Biochar Demo: I'll be sharing my experiences with biochar, produced on farm & commercial production. There will be samples there for people to get a feel for biochar

#soildependance #biochar #baseireland

Plenty of diversity amongst the organic heritage wheat at brookfield farm

Was this what fields looked like when these grains were grown?

Bumblebee was happy with the poppies anyway!

#galwaylandwheat #heritagewheat #farmingfornature #baseireland #canvasbrewery

Intercrop of beans & wheat was all a buzz today with both honey bees and bumblebees.

The wheat will get a constant supply of biologically fixed nitrogen from the beans, hopefully making milling quality

#intercrop #beans #wheat #bread #farmlife #pulses #farmingfornature #baseireland

Cuckoo calling in a bit of native woodland while the haulage is being turned in the field beside. Land Sharing in action! #farmingfornature #cuckoo #farmlife

Lapwing chasing crows away from the field of Peas and Beans intercrop. Suspect his mate is sitting on a nest...

#farming #farmingfornature

Biochar made on farm from brash getting mixed with Organic Manure for composting over the summer!

#biochar #compost #manure

Sowing the spuds with the vintage machinery.
That's the sowing drawing to a close

#harvest2025 #spuds #garden #farmlife

Bere Barley for a May-June harvest to close the hunger gap of olden times?

This is a volunteer from last year's crop but remarkably advanced compared to the winter barley behind it
#bere #barley #heritagegrains