Sam has been travelling the length and breadth of the country giving more talks on the benefits of green manures, cover crops and soil health as part of GREATsoils - Growing Resilient, Efficient and Thriving Soils. This ongoing programme of soil viability and farm health workshops is organised by ...

Sam visited G’s in Cambridgeshire to talk about Green Manures or Cover Crops last week, as part of the Soil Association’s Great Soils initiative. G’s is a family firm, established in the 1950s, that now supplies major UK and many European retailers with fresh, tasty and healthy ...

Incredibly smart work’ is how the judges of the Wild Trout Trust Conservation Awards described the Natural Flood Management at Honeydale Farm. Ian Wilkinson, farmer at Honeydale and MD of Cotswold Seeds, attended the awards ceremony at The Savile Club in London this week, along with other ...

Ian delivered a presentation on ‘How Forage Crops Can Deliver for Pollinators and Soil’  to delegates of the FWAG SW (The National Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) Staff and Associates Day in Taunton this week. Organic farmer and Nuffield Scholar Rob Richmond also took part, ...

A group of ornithologists and farmers met to discuss plans for Honeydale Farm this week at the start of a study to determine whether growing bird seed mixes together with supplementary feeding of birds over the winter ‘hungry gap’ (Feb-Apr) can help to halt the continued decline in ...