Heritage Seeds

19/08/2025

Flowers have come and gone at lightning speed this year. Bees are loving the Devil’s Bit Scabious just now

18/07/2025

Brush Harvesting in earnest today between the rain showers. Good grassland is often in small isolated parcels of land that escaped the worst of agriculture. Joe negotiating a tight gateway.

01/05/2025

The Swallows have been scouting around for a nest site this week. We have installed swift boxes and swallow starter home, both from the great RSPB let’s hope we get some tenants.

25/03/2025

Sunny and dry spring means we can get on our heavy ground earlier than normal. Also re-roofing our prop house and replacing the heating and the mist bench last week.
Plants look better already!

11/03/2025

Throwback to last summer. This is grass vetchling well established after we seeded locally harvested seed in a farm near Batcombe 3 years ago. Now a very pleasing and diverse grassland
Edit - no I’ve looked at the picture properly and it is Bitter Vetch- much rarer! Duh

05/03/2025

We are still working on the website- it sort of works and you can email- will have it straightened out this week!

03/02/2025

We have got the tools out and are updating our somewhat wonky website, it will take a day or so but you can contact us here, phone or email if you need to order or get advice.

Wish us luck

04/10/2024

Thing1 and Thing2 have finally finished beetling around grassland for this season and collected seed from a record area this year- pretty challenging weather has made this a looong season. Glorious weather for once as well!

16/09/2024

An encounter with a harvest mouse today!

11/09/2024

A 4th generation Russell popped in this morning, not sure he fully took all the nuance of my induction

21/08/2024

After much spannering and welding we now have two machines that allows us to make the most of the weather.

09/08/2024

We are well underway on this year’s harvest. This article shows it is so worthwhile and I’m sure all the followers here already understand this but it is nice to see the evidence set out.

Areas where farmers provide good habitats show notable increase in butterflies, bees, bats and breeding birds