Companion cropping can sometimes be a difficult term to define, but a learned fellow farmer, Andy Howard, describes it as growing two or more crops together, and that’s a definition I like, because it means diversity within plant species (which I firmly believe in), encompassing complex ...

With spring sowing season soon upon us, our new catalogues (conventional and organic) are on their way out onto the farms now, so look out for yours landing on your doormat. There are some great new products, including our Simple Herbal Ley which is ideal if you’re considering experimenting ...

If you’ve considered experimenting with a diverse seed mixture that’s more complex than ryegrass and clover mixes, you might want to try our Simple Herbal Ley. It contains ryegrass, cocksfoot, Timothy, meadow fescue, red clover, white clover, and mineral rich forage herbs including ...

Sam’s given presentations to two very different groups over the past couple of weeks. The first was to Portus and Whitton, Landscape Architects in Cirencester, where Sam described the possibilities and options for the creation of wildflower meadows and environmental schemes in private ...

From the Winter 2017 issue of 'Broadcast' Robin Hill founded Cotswold Seeds in 1974, while book-keeper Elaine Hall joined in 1982 and is still overseeing the accounts.  After obtaining an agricultural degree from Cambridge, Robin chose to learn the practicalities ‘from the bottom ...