FarmED

by Timothy Tasker Architects 

Client Cotswold Seeds Ltd 

Award RIBA South Award 2023 

Located in rural Oxfordshire, FarmED a leading agroecology demonstration and education centre that showcases innovative and sustainable farming practices. The centre was designed with the aim of promoting and inspiring sustainable agriculture and educating the public and, vitally, the farming community in the importance of regenerative farming methods.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Town & Country Renovations Limited 

Project Management Nesbitt Restorations 

Structural Engineer Obrien & Price 

Environmental / M&E Engineer Project Design Services Ltd 

Natural Flood Management Consultation Windrush AEC Ltd 

Ecology Windrush Ecology Limited 

Arboriculturalist Dowdeswell Forestry Services 

Market Gardener The Kitchen Garden People 

Water Treatment and Catchment Consultant Atkins Global 

Habitats for Farmland Birds Consultation Ornithologist at Centre for Ecology and Hydrology 

Pollinator and Tree Hive Beekeeping Consultations Ecologists & Beekeepers 

Advise on Farmland Bird Supplementary Feeding Consultation North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster CIC - Landscape Recovery Pilot Scheme - under ELM - DEFRA 

Wildlife & Conservation Advice Consultation FWAGSW - Advisory body that promotes wildlife on farmland 

Agroforestry Planting Consultation The Woodland Trust 

Woodland Design and Creation Consultation Nicholsons 

Gross internal area in m2 873