Monitoring facility

Hartwood Home Farm

Also known as cosmos/HARWD

Hartwood Home Farm is located near Shotts in Lanarkshire, in an area of upland farms devoted to stock rearing. The soils are heavy, poorly drained gleys typical of soils found in this part of central Scotland. High rainfall combined with poor drainage mean "poaching" is common especially from October to May. The site was previously managed by the James Hutton Institute and research was concerned with the development of sustainable management systems to meet agricultural and environmental objectives.