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2024 seed harvest

Harvesting wildflower seed in various locations around the Cotswolds in July and August 2024.

Over the summer, the team harvested 2,900kg which is enough to restore 116ha of new meadow across the Cotswolds.

A truck pulling a seed harvester setting off in a field

Wrapping up in Calmsden

Thu 29th Aug '24Sat 31st Aug '24

My last scheduled seed harvest today with Glorious Grasslands, although some ad-hoc sites will be done in early September. There were huge...

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A truck pulling a harvester in the distance in a field and an empty tarpaulin in the foreground

Meagre pickings at the water park

Wed 28th Aug '24Sat 31st Aug '24

Headed over to the Cotswolds Water Parks today for seed harvesting with Glorious Grasslands. It’s a site I’ve done a couple of...

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A tarpaulin with seed on in a field and a landrover driving past pulling a seed harvester

Flourishing floodplain meadow

Fri 16th Aug '24Sat 17th Aug '24

Second harvest of the week with Glorious Grasslands and I think the first floodplain meadow I’ve done this season. It wasn’t immediately...

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Two vehicles pulling seed harvesters setting off to harvest a field

Windy and broken

Thu 15th Aug '24Sat 17th Aug '24

I returned to the site that was abandoned last week due to terrible weather when we got there. Today I picked up...

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Two trucks with trailer parked in a field

Abandoned harvest

Thu 8th Aug '24Mon 12th Aug '24

A long trip to the North Cotswolds this morning with Glorious Grasslands, when the forecast was looking good until mid afternoon. It...

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A sloping meadow at the top of a wide valley expanse

Harvesting the Heavens

Fri 2nd Aug '24Sat 3rd Aug '24

A chance to visit a place in the news recently with Glorious Grasslands. The Heavens is a beautiful area of the Stroud...

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A landrover pulling a seed harvester in a meadow with wheat fields in the background

A species rich harvest

Thu 1st Aug '24Thu 1st Aug '24

Unfortunately there are very few calcareous grasslands left in the Cotswolds, but the very best ones are part of the Glorious Grasslands...

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Closeup of meadow grassland with yellow rattle pods prominent

Slad seed harvest

Mon 22nd Jul '24Fri 26th Jul '24

Months can go by without me going through the Slad valley, but in the last few weeks I’ve had three activities there,...

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A landrover parked in a wildflower meadow with a brush harvester attached.

Sweltering harvest

Thu 18th Jul '24

Last minute change of plan for today’s harvest with Glorious Grasslands. Instead of the scheduled field near Bath, I headed over to...

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