Our History

We were founded by specialist horticulture expert Derek Edwards, who set up a company that could supply turf for a whole host of purposes, developing unique mixes to suit all requirements. This included low maintenance turf, drought resistant turf, reinforced turf and much more. Always keen to innovate, Derek adapted traditional cultivating machines to make them more efficient – meaning we could better support our customers. Plus, in our first year, we also created the revolutionary Big Roll Turf harvesting system and the ‘lay and play’ turf tiles that could be used to instantly improve and repair sports pitches.

We make history as the first turf grower to earn BS5750 Quality Assurance accreditation from the British Standards Institute. By this time, we’d established ourselves as one of the region’s leading turf suppliers, working on golf courses, football pitches, racecourses, cricket grounds, stately homes and much more. Plus, we’d invested in French turf company Express Gazon and helped relay the pitch of France’s national stadium, Parc des Princes, ahead of the 5 Nations rugby tournament.

We turfed the whole of Methley Terrace, a street in Leeds, ahead of the ‘Streets for the People’ campaign. This included temporarily turfing 100 yards of the road as well as the local school. On the turf, the Methley Olympics took place as well as an outdoor cinema.

We launched Millennium Turf, a mixture of ten of our most advanced grass species, that would be perfect for landscaping and lawns and would be available from 2000 to mark the new millennium. In the same year, we also relayed the turf at Wimbledon’s iconic Centre Court, and at a top-secret location in Warwickshire, we were called upon to provide turf for a new children’s TV programme called Teletubbies.

With the 2002 Commonwealth Games taking part in Manchester, we were asked to supply turf for all of the event’s bowling greens. Plus, we helped with various lawns for the Chelsea Flower Show. As well as this, we helped lift the pitch at the old Wembley Stadium ahead of its major construction works, and developed a bespoke mix for Bolton Wanderers’ Reebok Stadium.

Derek passed the family business on to his twin sons Stephen and Alex and Inturf continued to develop. Due to the success of the work with Bolton Wanderers, Manchester United, Everton and Sunderland requested fibre reinforced turf from Inturf.

Our list of clients in 2005 included cricket stadiums Lord’s and Edgbaston, as well as the iconic Ascot Racecourse where we provided turf to relay the track as it was being realigned.

We took on Homebase as our first supplier, a brand we still work with to this day.

We supplied our Master Turf product to Carnoustie golf course in the run-up to The Open.

We supplied a custom mixed turf to Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

Our team’s partnership with the Wales Open and strong relationship with Celtic Manor meant we were called upon to supply turf ahead of the Ryder Cup.

As the nation’s excitement for the Olympics reached its peak, we supplied the turf for London’s sailing park.

We were privileged to be called upon to supply turf for Commonwealth war graves in France.

We supplied and installed turf to the only park in Gibraltar.

We added the vastly experienced Guy Barrett to the team as Operations Director. Bringing with him over 40 years of industry experience, he has helped us to rapidly increase the amount of turf we produce each year.

We had increased production by 50% and in 2018 we heavily invested in new staff, technology and equipment. As well as this, we continued to support our clients and supplied turf for the entirety of Carnoustie golf course ahead of the 147th Open Championship.

Another record-breaking year for Inturf, we invested in new tractors, wide-area mowers and a whole host of other harvesting equipment

Celebrating 10 years of successive growth and more investment for a growing business

Completed the development of The Chestnuts, with a state of the art maintenance facility and some of the best set of grinders to keep our mowers sharp and in tiptop condition.