Paul Totterdell

Cotswold Seeds

Paul Totterdell is Group Director at Cotswold Seeds Ltd and has been working for Cotswold Seeds since 2000. He has 25 years’ experience as a seed merchant specialising in seed mixes for animal forage, soil improvement, and agri-environmental schemes. Cotswold Seeds works with 20,000 farms across the UK providing specialist advice on seed mix formulation and management, as well as running a knowledge exchange centre in the Cotswolds called FarmED. Paul has a particular interest in Diverse Mixtures, Herbal Leys and Regenerative Farming practices, which have become very popular in recent times due to extremes in weather and the political climate. As part of his role, Paul was involved for many years with the multi-million pound, EU-funded Healthy Hay and Legume Plus research programmes, focusing on the science behind the forgotten novel legumes, such as Sainfoin, and has collaborated more recently with various scientific and academic groups such as the SARIC group based in Reading University and NIAB in Cambridge on the CHCx3 Carbon Sequestration study in conjunction with the Farm Carbon Toolkit.