Category: Latest News

  • Wensum Farmers Visit the Pioneering Wendling Beck Project

    Last week, members of the Wensum Farmers cluster spent an inspiring morning at the Wendling Beck Project in Norfolk. As long-standing partners and valued members of our cluster, the Wendling Beck team welcomed us for a firsthand look at their pioneering work in engineered landscape-scale nature recovery. The day began indoors with a presentation outlining…

  • Derek vs Derek screening at The Swan, Gressenhall

    Last night, Wensum Farmers enjoyed a well-attended screening of Derek vs Derek at The Swan in Gressenhall. The evening brought together members from across the group, including several from the West Norfolk contingent. We are very grateful to Swallowtail for hosting the event – the venue provided an excellent setting for both the film and…

  • Tough decisions: A spotlight on the drought

    Farmers are known for watching the weather closely – and with good reason. It shapes almost everything we do, yet remains completely beyond our control. This year, records seem to be tumbling every month, and rarely for the better. The mental strain caused by the current climate – both the weather itself and the wider…

  • Discovering the night time wonders on our farmland

    Last week, Wensum Farmers enjoyed a great moth morning at Sparham Hall Farm, hosted and organised by our friends there. The session finished perfectly with bacon rolls in the sunshine. Moths and butterflies are both Lepidoptera – scale-covered wings. While butterflies fly by day with clubbed antennae and wings held over their backs, many moths…

  • Wensum Farmers 2026 AGM: Reflecting on Our Progress and Looking Ahead Together

    We recently held our 2026 Annual General Meeting, bringing our members, partners, and supporters together for a valuable day of reflection, discussion, and planning. As a farmer-led group in the Upper Wensum catchment, these gatherings are always a highlight of our year — a chance to celebrate what we’ve achieved collectively and strengthen our shared…

  • Wensum Farmers Visit Norfolk Rivers Trust Beaver Enclosure

    A collaborative visit to explore nature-based solutions for water quality and biodiversity. Yesterday, members of the Wensum Farmers Group had the opportunity to visit the Norfolk Rivers Trust’s beaver enclosure in North Norfolk. Guided by the Trust’s team, we gained valuable insights into the important work being carried out with beavers and the tangible benefits…

  • Beautiful Biofluorescence

    When the sun goes down a whole new perspective on our day to day environment lights up. We were lucky enough to have a guided walk by Reveal Nature into this fascinating new world. Taking the ordinary field edge and hedgerow and transforming it into a world or awe and wonder. Reveal Nature specialise in…

  • Member Insights: Whitwell Common

    Whitwell Common is a small remnant of habitat that was once typical of the Wensum Valley and lies between Reepham and Sparham. Covering approx. 20ha, it was designated a SSSI in 1954 because of its increasingly rare plant communities. They are fed by springs which arise through chalk- rich clay that is overlaid with alluvial…

  • Member Insights: Bintry Mill

    Signs of Spring are everywhere at the Mill.  We have daffodils open, snowdrops and aconites in full flower and most magically for me, the air around the willows has started to vibrate with an aura of colour.  Earlier and earlier each year which is a reminder that change is happening. The big news of the…

  • Wensum Farmers: Making Progress & Working Together

    A day at the races! By kind invitation of David Hunter and the team at Fakenham Racecourse (an enthused member of Wensum Farmers) some of our group spent the day at the races. With a race named after us; “The Wensum Farmers: Making Progress and Working Together Handicap Steeple Chase (Class 5)” and an invitation…