** NEW** First Hand Case Study: Pastured Pigs with Justin Newman

**NEW** First Hand Case Study: Herbal Leys with Angus Gowthorpe 

Location: Vale of York Farm Type: Arable with Livestock Size: 430 acres  Soil Type: Sand, loam, some clay Mixtures: Simple Herbal Ley Angus Gowthorpe says he is, ...

Autumn Sown Hay & Graze Mix

  This Hay & Graze mix was sown in autumn 2020 using discs to create a seed bed after harvest and sown with an air seeder, before rolling twice. The mix provided ...

Pochon Dairy Diary

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 ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: David Gow talks about the Wild Flower Mix

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 ...

** NEW First Hand Case Study: Mike Fisher talks about Winter Cover Crops for Market Gardening

Veg grower, Mike Fisher, has not applied any compost for the past five years, relying instead purely on plant mixtures as green manures. This year, 2021, Mike celebrates 30 ...

**NEW** First Hand Case Study: Tom Day talks about herbal leys

Size: 280 acres Location: Kent Soil Type: Weald Clay Mixture: Herbal Ley, Maximum Yield Two Year Silage Ley, Forage Rape.   When the spring of 2020 brought drought, ...

Farm Walk at Honeydale

Join FarmED Founder, Ian Wilkinson, on a virtual farm walk. Of course it’s not the same as actually visiting us at Honeydale Farm, but while we’re unable to welcome ...

A FarmED Team Reflection on ORFC Global 2021

 

Cotswold Seeds Customer Days @FarmED

College Links

Cotswold Seeds MD, Ian Wilkinson, studied Farm and Grassland Management at BCA Maidenhead, where he also met his wife, Celene and spent a year as Student President under ...

Species of the Week: Milvus Red Clover

Species of the Week: Milvus Red Clover has very good persistence. The Swiss plant breeders have used the Matenklee or mountain type Red Clover as a parent and have bred a ...

Advice for Spring - Herbal Leys & May Hay Making!

This period of warm, settled weather has created a window for hay making. But while it’s always a relief to get hay in the barn in dry conditions, early cutting can come ...

Species of the Week: Red Clover

  Red Clover  is one of the most popular true clovers in the UK. Once established it’s capable of rapid growth and shows reasonably good persistence up to ...

First Hand Case Study: Herbal Grazing Leys with John Cherry

John Cherry, a fourth generation farmer, is one of the founders of Groundswell - the no till and regenerative agriculture show, which advocates no tillage. This policy also ...

First Hand Case Study: Red and White Clover Leys with Tim Peachey

Tim Peachey’s father started farming at Donkeywell Farm in 1971, converting to organic in 1992, since then clover leys have played an important role in their farming ...

First Hand Case Study: Fast and Vast for Silage with Peter Cheek

First Hand: Cover Crops and Compost Teas with Paul Carre & Glyn Mitchell

Jersey suffers from high levels of pollution from intensive agriculture. Last year, in peak times of potato growing, nitrate levels reached double the EU limit of 50 mg per litre ...

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