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| Please contact Richard Brown or Mark Schofield at the King's Lynn address for advice,
catalogues and orders.
For advice in the South West contact Donald MacIntyre on (01225) 858656 at Manor Farm, Langridge, Bath BA1 8AJ.
About Emorsgate SeedsEmorsgate Seeds was established in 1980 by Donald MacIntyre following a first degree in botany at Royal Holloway College, an MSc in plant genetics at Glasgow University, and research in genetics, ecology and plant breeding.
From the beginning Emorsgate Seeds has specialised in the production of native British wild flower and wild grass seed. Initial stock seed, and encouragement, was provided by Dr Terry Wells of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, with advice from Derek Wells of English Nature. This seed, with additional wild stock seed hand collected from East Anglia, was used to plant up our first seed crops on a one acre field at Emorsgate in the Norfolk village of Terrington St Clement. The soil there is a deep, fertile and stone free neutral silt, and this combined with flat fields and very low rainfall is good for growing seeds.
Richard Brown joined us in 1990 following a first degree in botany at Liverpool University, an MSc in seed technology at The University of Edinburgh and research in wild seed production. Richard now manages Emorsgate Seeds in Norfolk, where we have over 120 acres in wild seed crops.
Mark Schofield joined Emorsgate in 1995 following a degree in biology, work for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, and experience in the landscape section of a local authority. The Norfolk team is completed by Albert Hughes on seed processing, Mick Cockle and Carl Cockle in field production, and Sarah Shepherd in the office.
Jane Lipington, with a diploma from Kew, and following a career as a garden researcher, recently joined Donald MacIntyre at Bath, and together they manage farmland of which 30 acres is down to wild seed crops. The conditions in the west are not ideal for seed production, but the lime-rich stony soil does allow us to grow species less suited to the neutral silts of Norfolk. We all hope that our wild seeds will give you at least as much pleasure as we have had from raising the crops through to harvest.
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