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New hungry mouths.
It's at this time of year that our newly fledged birds can do with a bit of a boost
Live meal worms are pretty much guaranteed to get birds into your garden (even your hand) especially Robins and Blackbirds. And it's satisfying to know that by continuing to feed your birds you are helping them survive what is becoming a topsy turvy year, weather wise.
We have several mixes with dried meal worms included, Fledgling Saver, Super Mix also with fruit and a full range of live and dried meal worms in stock.
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Winner of The Green Business Award 2011
Getting ready for Spring with our NEW Mix.
Introducing our NEW wild bird seed mix the Fledgling Saverformulated to save you money and help all your new freshly fledged birds.
Yes even now Blackbirds are breeding soon to be followed by Robin, Sparrows and Finches. Blue and Great tits later on in the year will all follow and your garden will burst with life. Give them the boost they need with our specially formulated Fledgling Saver and save money too!
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Winner of The Green Business Award 2011
Are you ready for the BIG Garden Birdwatch?.
On the 28th and 29th of January the RSPB and BTO would love to get your garden birdwatch results. There is a link here for you to register and download all you need for the survey. So make sure you have your seeds and Peanuts, sit down with your bino's and a cup of tea and take part!
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Winner of The Green Business Award 2011
NEW Honey Care Products
It's a well known fact that our honey bees are suffering a decline in the countryside. So we want to try and help in any way we can
The best way for us to do this is to support our bee keepers by supplying their fantastic Honey Care Products. We are keeping it local too by offering you products from the Quince Honey Farm in Devon. Please have a browse through their great range of specialist care products and try a few for yourself!
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Winner of The Green Business Award 2011
The spread of Avian pox
Once confined to the South East new outbreaks of this distressing disease has come to light as far north as Staffordshire and west to Wiltshire. Affecting Great Tits, Dunnocks and Wood Pigeons with lesions around their eyes and beak.
It is completely avoidable just by cleaning your feeding area and feeders regularly ( at least once a week). Also try to regulate the amount of food you put out making them clean out feeders every 2 days or so. Take a look at our hygiene products for safe healthy wild birds.
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Here we go again
It always seems to be the same, just as we think about harvesting - down comes the rain! We have to start no matter what on the 25th as my oil seed rape is ready and I don't want it ending up on the ground.
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The Brown Hare Workshop
We all had a great day on the 15th with about 30 people walking the farm to catch a glimpse of one of our hares. Things didn't look too good with a very misty morning but by the afternoon, when we needed it, it started to clear. I managed to see a hare in the crops and got it to run straight past the whole group, which was very lucky. Thanks very much to all who came along and I hope you all had a great day and even learnt something useful !
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The Brown Hare Workshop
On Wednesday the 15th June at 10am, if you're in the area, come along to the Malborough Village Hall for a cup of tea and hear from some of our best authorities on the brown hare. Guest speakers from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Devon Mammal Group and Devon FWAG. Topics include hare ecology, national and regional status, farm habitat management and survey techniques. Lunch is served at 12.30 and then we all come out to Southdown Farm where it will fall to me to provide fantastic views of our Brown Hares!! Booking is essential please phone 01392 364392 or e mail devon@fwag.org.uk to book.
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Soar Mill Seeds win The Green Business Award
We are very proud to announce our success in winning The mail order company Green Business Award. We were up against some very big and long established companies such as, Notonthehighstreet, Laithwaites Wine, Scotts & Co and Aspace. This proves our credentials when it comes to the environment and our whole ethos of reducing waste. Learn more by looking here:
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Have you ever toured the farm?
See exactly where up to 40% of our seeds are grown. See how, with your purchases, we are creating wildlife habitat on our farm. Take a virtual tour and get to know the fields and farm in general. See what birds are about on the farm now and in the past. Visit the Farm Here.
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We would like to wish you all a Happy New Year.
Deliveries to Scotland have been resumed, however please be aware there may still be a short delay because of the back log.
Our office will be shut on the bank holiday.
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Soar Mill Seeds help feed the rare cirl bunting on the South Devon coast. Every winter we help the RSPB with their winter feeding project to make sure the cirl bunting survive the winter months. We supply canary seed and white millet, all home grown, to farmers and organisations in south Devon so they can put food out on their land. We also supply the re-introduction project bringing cirl buntings back to Cornwall!
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Take a look at the latest bird sightings here at Southdown Farm.
New hungry mouths.
It's at this time of year that our newly fledged birds can do with a bit of a boost
Live meal worms are pretty much guaranteed to get birds into your garden (even your hand) especially Robins and Blackbirds. And it's satisfying to know that by continuing to feed your birds you are helping them survive what is becoming a topsy turvy year, weather wise.
We have several mixes with dried meal worms included, Fledgling Saver, Super Mix also with fruit and a full range of live and dried meal worms in stock.
Browse through our paper catalogue here!
Winner of The Green Business Award 2011
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