- Joined
- Mar 30, 2011
- Messages
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- Location
- Glanaman,Carmarthenshire,Wales
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Too many - but not nearly enough
My cousin's farm - he doesn't do much with these middle fields, another one this size next to it and two more the other side of the woods and another area about the same size the other side of the house, must be fifty sixty acres which has had nothing more than a cut of silage taken off every year - no fertilizers and not much grazing for ten years, all the manure is spread on another 50 acres (His grandmother's old farm) the other side of the lane which was very poorly put back after open cast mining in the early seventies. There's also the 'top fields' which used to be mountain land in commons but was stolen by the Cawdors in the 1860's then rented to his great grandfather before his father bought it back. this hardly gets meddled with at all.