Devonshire Farm

06/06/2026

My great farrier Mark doing his thing.

28/05/2026

Rowing up forming small beds in preparation for putting in transplants. It is really important to have a nice steady horse in order to keep a straight line!

23/05/2026

View from on board the cultimulcher showing the great work it does working over the soil ready for planting. We have clay in our soil so it is important to break the clods down before they become too hard from the sun.

18/05/2026

Its the start of a new day and we are off to do some ploughing!

09/05/2026

Horselogging the modern way. The incredible power of these horses over short distances and their ability to move sideways means that these horses are really versatile in the woods and we can extract large quantities of timber in a day.

03/05/2026

Bringing the Shire horses in from the field for work.

01/05/2026

Ploughing with 3 horses using a very old John Deere 272 sulky plough. Does anyone know where I can get a new plough share for this from?

24/04/2026

Potato planting with one of the first horse drawn potato planters invented. The video is in real time so you can see that the operator has to be be pretty quick with their hands!

16/04/2026

16/04/2026

First use of our new 2nd hand cultimulcher which for a first pass on the land is doing a great job of breaking down the clods and will save me doing lots of passes with other implements.