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Member Insights: Pensthorpe Natural Park
Unlike many of our colleagues within the group, Pensthorpe is all about integrating our farmland and nature reserve for the benefit of biodiversity whilst retaining our high visitor interaction. The work can be very varied and often much smaller on scale than traditional farms. Our wetlands need lots of work after the latest breeding season.…
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GT Bunning & Sons
Did you know one of the primary manufacturers of muck spreaders and pallet inverters sits snugly next to a community pub on a quiet village green in the heart of the upper Wensum catchment? A fascinating evening with some of the team at Bunnings, Gressenhall. We were shown the production processes from start to finish,…
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Goop & Paludiculture
No, I haven’t made either of these words up. Despite sounding like a fairy-tale villain, these terms both refer to ways of ensuring you are managing your soil to the best of your ability given its conditions. Goop is an exciting product launched by Daniel Tyrkiel, Director of the Soil Ecology Lab. He spoke to…
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Member Insights: Sennowe Estate, Guist
It has been a very different autumn this year and a first in my farming career. We have not planted any combinable winter sown crops! But the drill has been very busy drilling cover crops, grass on fields coming pigs and several CSS and SFI mixes. It doesn’t feel right, but when you look at…
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