Arable Innovator of the Year Award

Posted: 1st December 2016

Congratulations to our valued customer Jonathan Boaz who has won the prestigious  Arable Innovator of the Year Award, for his use of green manures and composting to improve soil organic matter on his Worcestershire farm. The awards are organised by British Media Agriculture, owners of the ...

Tackling Worms

Posted: 23rd November 2016

BBC ‘Countryfile’ programme carried a feature about how the emergence of drug-resistant worms is posing a severe threat to sheep farming in the UK and quoted the figure of £84m as the cost to the UK farming industry of chemical anthelmintics or drenches (wormers). Cotswold Seeds ...

Sam on the Road

Posted: 14th November 2016

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 ...

Talking Green Manures at G's

Posted: 31st October 2016

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 ...

Wild Trout Trust Awards

Posted: 20th October 2016

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 ...

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