The days are getting longer and this, as far as nature is concerned, is a fresh start. This is, for us, the best month to see which species have come up trumps after the winter battles by counting our bio indicator species like partridges, now paired up, and hares now out of there “march madness” […]

The gardens had their annual opening in the spring this year for a change and also for a change we had reasonable weather. We returned to a type of opening this year that we first tried in 2017 where we joined in the Scotlands Gardens, Fife garden trails. This involves several gardens in the area […]

This month we welcome Nathan Reilly to Balcaskie Farms as he starts his new role as Head Stockman. Having spent much of his career in Scotland running similar enterprises to those at Balcaskie, Nathan took the chance to travel to NZ and learn how pasture is managed and farming coped with changes in the subsidy […]

All the spring sowing has now finished, with all the crops going into the ground in good conditions. The Laureate Spring malting barley is already through the ground, and dare I say it would benefit from a day’s rain! We have also given the Winter Wheat and Winter Barley there second application of variable rate […]