RADFORD MILL FARM

2019 to 2021: Tibor brought 10 beehives to the Farm and by the end of 2019 we had several hundred jars of Radford Mill honey. During the winter 2019-20 we started more than 300 oak trees from our own acorns; they will be ready for planting out in two years, along with some ash, elm, beech, birch, Scots pine and others. We create some tree plantations every year, using corners of fields and some of the north-facing slopes that are not the best for grass and hay. The Mill received its under-floor water heating pipes, soon to be powered by either a wood-fired boiler or by a ground source heat pump that magically will use the ice-cold river as the primary source for the heat. About 50 kw of solar panels are planned for our least productive south-facing slope, called Mill Tyning; this was the field where we first sowed wheat on long straw all those years ago. We'll graze sheep under the solar panels, and possibly our two horses will prance around the perimeter. Because Covid-19 caused most..