A mixture of information, news & case studies
Come and Learn More About Holistic Management, Regenerative Soil Health, Herbal Leys and Permaculture Are you a farmer, land manager or adviser with a passion for regenerative ...
Sam Clarke’s Pochon Dairy mix, a medium term, dual purpose, high clover cutting and grazing ley, used for high quality silage and sheep and cattle grazing. It was sown in ...
David Gow has truly embraced the concept of farm diversification, branching out into selling Christmas trees and planting willow trees for cricket bats, which can only be grown ...
The Westerwold Hay Mix is a flexible grass option to sow this spring. It is the only grass that provides a full yield from a spring sowing and, more importantly, it reliably ...
As Defra published it’s consultation paper today, outlining plans for new funding for environmental schemes, rewarding farmers who encourage biodiversity and improve soil ...
Harry Blake, aged 21, helps run a 650 acre farm near Oxford with his Mother. He’s a fifth generation farmer and his family has been farming their land in Oxfordshire since ...
Winter frosts can lift soil over the winter leaving the roots of young grass and legume plants explosed and vulnerable to winter kill. Rolling these fields in late winter will ...
With rising nitrogen prices and an ever-increasing requirement to farm in an environmentally sustainable way, green manures are fast becoming a viable way to cut input costs, add ...
It was a wonderful experience to take part in the thought-provoking Real Oxford Farming Conference at Oxford Town Hall this year. Our session was entitled Optimising Productivity ...
Here Emmerich von Maltzahn from Oxfordshire talks about establishing a wildflower meadow on one of his fields. This three acre site, which was once arable land has ...
Paul Totterdell’s role at Cotswold Seeds has evolved over the years to cover all things technical, in every sense of the word. He was born in Gloucester but moved to North ...
Ian Wilkinson describes the benefits of complex seed mixtures and their importance in modern grassland ...
Dagan James is an organic farmer who mob-grazes Water Buffalo on his special herbal ley. Complex seed mixes have been grown on this farm in Stockbridge since 2004, ...
Suitable soils and pH Most herb and legume species can be sown on sand, loam or clay soils with a ph above 5.6. However sainfoin and lucerne should only be sown on free draining ...
Our customers have posted some interesting observations on Twitter over the past few weeks. At the beginning of July, a third generation sheep and arable farmer from Hill Farm in ...
