Twelve months, ten cameras, and four weeks that matter.
Most of the farming year is waiting, and a camera pointed at waiting is a camera pointed at nothing. This is the table that tells you which fortnight is worth your time and which one is a hedge.
The whole year, camera by camera.
| Month | The camera to open | What is actually on it |
|---|---|---|
| January | The hedgerow | Structure, frost and birds. The laid hedge is only visible with the leaves off. |
| February | The yard | Mud, machinery maintenance, and the pressure washer. |
| March | The lambing shed | Lambing starts mid-month. Free to everybody, all night. |
| April | The lambing shed | Peak lambing, and the busiest fortnight on this whole website. |
| May | The hop yard | The climb. Bines putting on two to four inches a day. |
| June | The big field | The tops going pale before the bottoms. A dry June shows here first. |
| July | The weighbridge | Harvest. Barley usually first, and the first real number of the year. |
| August | The big field | The combine, and the three weeks that decide the year. |
| September | The hop yard | The pick, over an afternoon, by whoever can be persuaded. |
| October | The big field | Drilling. A tractor going back and forth, which is oddly calming. |
| November | The beehive | Winding down. The mouse guard goes on and the traffic stops. |
| December | The pub pass | The kitchen at its busiest, and the fields at their darkest. |
What the site thinks is happening right now.
Watching the wheat
Harvest is coming
- Season Read from the date at OX7 system clock—
- Weather Met Office DataHub, OX7 metoffice.datahub30 min
- Crop stage From the farm office record farm-office24 h
- Cameras live Health check across all ten cam-health60 s
- Next event Lambing, then harvest farm-calendar24 h
20°C at the farm shop, and dry for now
Winter barley running at 4.1 tonnes the hectare
Chapter 41 is open. Forty came before it
In this demonstration build every feed renders a seeded placeholder and names the source that would replace it. Nothing here calls a live API.
The four cameras with a season on them.
These four are worth a diary entry. The other six are worth a browser tab.
The six that are the same all year, and why that is the point.
The yard, the hedgerow, the gate, the beehive, the brewery floor and the pub pass do not have a season in any meaningful sense. They have a Tuesday.
That is deliberate. A camera that is only interesting for three weeks is a camera nobody trusts for the other forty-nine, and the whole argument for doing this is continuity. The hedge is worth watching precisely because it is always there and almost never different.
If you want the fortnight that justifies the entire section, it is the second half of April. If you want the one that explains the accounts, it is the first week of August on the weighbridge.
The four weeks that actually matter.
Lambing starts
The shed camera comes on and stays on. Free to everybody, all night, for six weeks.
Read the chapterThe hops climb
Two to four inches a day. The best time-lapse subject on the farm.
The first load
A trailer crosses the weighbridge and the year gets its first real number.
Read the chapterThe last field
Standing to stubble in an afternoon, and the only sequence people ask us to re-run.
Four cameras, four reasons.
Best fortnight
The second half of April, without competition.
Most consequential
The first week of August, on the weighbridge.
Most reliably nothing
The hedgerow, every week of the year.
Most useful
The gate, if you are thinking of driving here.
Be told, rather than checking.
One notification when lambing starts and one when the combine goes in. That is the whole service.
