Five members of the Cotswold Seeds team have just completed a three day intensive course on soil microbiology, looking at everything, from the importance of soil microorganisms, carbon content, to compaction, soil sampling and the formation of humus. At Cotswold Seeds and Honeydale Farm ...

Natural flood management employs natural processes to reduce the risk of flooding and erosion and can be adopted by farmers, landowners, land managers and other stakeholders. As well as attenuating runoff, schemes also reduce the loss of fertilisers and nutrients from farmland Examples of natural ...

  Suitable soils and optimum pH These mixes are designed for light, free-draining land with a pH of 5.6-7. When to sow Sow between late March and early September. Late autumn sowing should be avoided when mixtures contain clovers. How to sow In mixed swards herbicide options are limited, ...

Our durable Cotswold Seed bags have always been very popular, with many farmers finding multiple uses for them after they’ve been emptied of seed.  We’ve seen them used for sheep feed, to bundle up newly shorn fleece, and taped on to the end of a combine auger.  And now ...

Root mixtures like Early Fold are excellent for winter grazing. At Honeydale, we used Early Fold in our eight year crop rotation, the catch crop between the ley and wheat. Ours was sown ten days ago but it's still not too late, while the soils are still warm, the days are long and ...