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  • Crisp Malt

    Crisp Malt

    Visiting our neighbours along the Wensum and understanding how we can better work together is always a positive and productive use of our time. Crisp Malt were kind enough to offer the Wensum Farmers a tour around their site. The aims being to better understand the malting process and to appreciate the lengths that Crisp’s…

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  • Something to tweet about

    Something to tweet about

    The majority of Wensum Farmers take part in the annual Big Farmland Bird Count hosted by the BTO, so to tie in with this national initiative, we ran an internal competition to monitor the status of some of our rarer farmland birds. The group were challenged to count the red listed birds on their holdings…

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  • A way forward

    A way forward

    A Vision for the Future. A day filled with plenty of buzzwords and blue sky thinking but a much needed chat around a renewed purpose for the Wensum Farmers. Questions pertaining to where we want to be in 5 years time and what success will look like, mixed in with suggestions of collaborative hockey teams…

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  • Winter ponding

    Winter ponding

    You associate January with the bleak midwinter, with new starts and resetting the clock on your personal goals, but what about conservation? Whilst the wildlife sleeps, the volunteers and farmers are busy maintaining one of the best biodiverse resources at their fingertips! Farmland ponds have been proven to be hotspots for life in the middle…

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