#LoveLambWeek producing top quality protein where no other crop will grow #MyBiosphere

We’ve loved checking the lambs on the herbal ley this weeks. A sea of blue, flowering chicory. Photos don’t do it justice. Also red and white clover and birds foot trefoil. Lambs, bees, butterflies and ladybirds thriving on it

It baffles me that anyone could come in here with a strimmer 🤷🏼‍♀️ In October after everything has gone to seed maybe. But not July whilst plants are still flowering. Perhaps @manxnature could give @manxheritage some guidance? 3/3

This is a really great site for #wildflowers. In fact, @manxheritage did a plant survey here, 2023 I think. So this plant life, including orchids, is on record. 2/3

So sad to see Ballafayle #neolithic cairn strimmed bare today, it was literally humming with #bees when I was there on Wednesday. How has this happened again @manxheritage ? 🤦🏼‍♀️ #Wildflowers at their best at this site a few days ago. Thread 1/3

#pigs eating ice lollies…probably the best bit of the hot week!

Foraged feast last night. Wild raspberries and tiny wild strawberries. A few blaeberries too

Big week. Lambs weaned and hay made.

We graze this rocky bank hard all winter; it’s one of our driest bale feeding sites. From late March to October it’s rested. Collecting yellow rattle seed to sow elsewhere. Huge #orchids. #farmingwithnature

Some huge sets of twins now. This group are 11-12 weeks old and ready to wean. The ewes will be glad of a rest, they’ve done a great job.

#solstice #sunrise Family of #eider ducks paddling by

Alouette is almost 3 weeks old now. What a character! #donkey #foal

Now about those cows trashing the planet…

#isleofman at its finest today. Perfect weather for welcoming @FWAGAssoc visitors from all over the UK to our farm, on island for the presentation of the Silver Lapwing award for #conservation within commercial #farming

Alouette the #donkey #foal is 2 weeks old now. She’s incredibly friendly, cheeky and inquisitive. Had to move her from the exit gate in case a ewe knocked her over. She’s probably not even 15kg yet

We put shavings down when we’re working in the sheep pens to keep lambs clean. Coco snuck in while we went to get another mob of lambs; he thought it looked perfect for rolling in!

Our #orchid meadow is in full bloom. Thousands and thousands of them. Such a fantastic thing to see

Excited to announce that @TheOceanCleanup is massively scaling up Interceptor projects in the coming years! ✅30 Cities. ✅Stopping up to 1/3rd of all plastic pollution flowing out of rivers globally. ✅All by 2030.

Pony the pig is becoming a firm favourite! Such a character.

#shearing day. Big team effort. 3 shearers. Rach and Kirree filling pens and wrapping wool. Dad and I outside keeping 5 mobs of ewes coming and going. We shed off the lambs on the way into the barn to keep them out of the way. Long hot day but always good to have the #wool off

5 mobs of ewes moved close to home ready for #shearing tomorrow. Dental checks for 4yo Pippin and 3yo’s May and Sprout