Reflections from a Dumfriesshire farm Morning has broken. It’s still dark and I’m up to feed and check on the animals-always our first priority. Most of them are in the sheds at this time of y...
Phil Knott is a crofter on the Sleat Peninsula on the Isle of Skye. Phil lives with his partner and daughter on a 3ha wooded croft....
Farmers and Warwickshire Wildlife Trust working in partnership to create new homes for declining bird species Barn owls and tree sparrows have both suffered huge declines over the last 50 years due partly to agric...
Michael Meharg farms a 250 ha suckler cow enterprise in county Antrim which includes conservation on a number of protected sites in NI. Passionate about the environment and rare breeds and with a background in ecology Michael facilitates work...
Forage – silage and hay, by Callum Weir We had a buzzword for the 2019 forage season at the National Trust’s Wimpole Estate – patchwork. Instead of cutting a whole field of silage, we cut half of two fields. Instead o...
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Neil was born and brought up at Hill Top Farm, Malham in North Yorkshire, where he now...
Sorcha Lewis is on the NFFN Steering Group for Wales, we asked her to tell us about her farm in the Elan Valley and share her thoughts on nature friendly farming… Sorcha and Brian Lewis are third generation tenant f...
Michael Clarke is the NFFN Chair for Scotland, we asked him to tell us about his farm in Dumfriesshire and share his thoughts on nature friendly farming… In partnership with my wife, I farm about 300 acres of lowland grass on...
