**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

Last month a group of Cotswold Seeds customers came to FarmED for a socially distanced farm walk to learn more about the benefits of regenerative agriculture. They heard ...

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 ...

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

Peter Cheek is Farm Manager at Godminster Farm, on the outskirts of Bruton in Somerset. The farm is owned by Richard Hollingsworth and milk is sold to make the well-known Wyke ...

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 ...

First Hand Case Study: Pochon Persistent with Stuart Hammond

Stuart Hammond is a third generation farmer, and his family have been using Cotswold Seeds’ Pochon Persistent ley for over two decades with impressive results and ...

First Hand Case Study: Special Herbal Ley with Martin Chatfield

Martin Chatfield, at Crossways Farm, describes himself as an accidental farmer, who started farming ‘by mistake’ after he bought some chickens. That was nearly forty ...