Summer pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/summer/ No longer a working farm. Our home in North Devon Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:09:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://chilcotts.farm/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-Chilcotts-farm-site-icon-32x32.png Summer pagesepsitename%% https://chilcotts.farm/tag/summer/ 32 32 Return of the Swallow – Like clockwork https://chilcotts.farm/return-of-the-swallow-like-clockwork/ https://chilcotts.farm/return-of-the-swallow-like-clockwork/#respond Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:06:45 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6623 14th/15th April each year we see our first swallow. This morning I woke up and said “Today the swallows will return”. This afternoon we heard it’s twit twit twitting sitting on the phone line (sorry photo is not that good). I am no oracle, looking into the future. Its absolutely amazing how they turn up […]

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/return-of-the-swallow-like-clockwork/feed/ 0 Bees are out collecting the summer honey https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/ https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:40:53 +0000 https://chilcotts.farm/?p=6331 The weather has not been bad or good, but the bees are out at every opportunity. The summer flowers are blossoming, and we are hoping for a good honey harvest come August!

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]]> https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-out-collecting-the-summer-honey/feed/ 0 Bees are all over our New Zealand Flax Flowers https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-all-over-our-new-zealand-flax-flowers/ https://chilcotts.farm/bees-are-all-over-our-new-zealand-flax-flowers/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:50:57 +0000 https://chilcottsfarm.co.uk/?p=3195 This year, in our garden (North Devon, UK), the New Zealand Flax’s have sent up some beautiful long flower spikes with small tubular flowers delicately displaying in reds and oranges. The anthers protrude from the top of the tubular flower. Here the high protein orange coloured pollen can be collected by the bee. But where […]

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