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Our cherry collections are now finished and Ian has been busy extracing the seed from the berries. Our Prunus avium seed orchard yielded well this year and we also collected a reasonalbe amount of berries from our Prunus padus trees. Many of these are now so tall that a cherry picker has to be used to reach the majority of the crop.

Meadow seed harevst has gone well despite the weather breaking.  We have managed to make the most of the dry days and are now in the process of cleaning up the seed that we have collected so far.

We were interviewed by BBC Shropshire Radio who did a feature on the decline of the British Hay Meadow.  This feature has generated extra interest in the work that we do with the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.  It outlined how the Wildlife Trust identify existing species rich hay meadows and help to ensure their conservation. We then have access to some of these meadows which we harvest in rotation to avoid any reduction in species diversity, and the seed that we harvest enables more hay meadows to be established. 

We also sell our meadow seed in smaller quantities to people wanting to enrich existing grassland, or gardeners who want something more interesting than a traditional lawn area. Our individual wild flower species will also be added to our web site shortly, so that more people have access to the wide range of native wild flower seed that we produce.  Native wild flowers mix well with cultivated plants in a border, or they can be used to create a specific wildlife area in your garden.

The summer months are a busy time of year for us as we travel the country assessing potential crops and planning our main autumn collections.