On the third week of May when the farm was looking glorious, green and lushness everywhere, we played host to the BBC Countryfile team for three days of filming. Everything went according to plan, the sun came out at last, the lambs looked super cute and gambled for the cameras, the bi-cropped cereals looked terrific and the veggies in the market...
Heritage Orchard sponsored by the Environment Agency In November 2019 we were supplied with 25 fruit trees to plant two new orchards on the farm. The scheme was organised by Carly Kimber, the local Biodiversity Technical Officer for the Environment Agency as part of the ‘Pollinators in Gloucestershire’ project. The scheme aimed to off-set the damage to wildlife habitats (following necessary...
Farm Shelterbelts In partnership with FWAG SW, Protect Earth and Ecologi In 2020 we eagerly volunteered to offer our farm as a demonstration site for the “Optimum Shelterbelt”. The design of the “Optimum Shelterbelt” is the result of many, many years of research by John Davis in conjunction with Oxford University. In partnership with this project, the Organic Research Institute Cirencester will...