Our six-acre site is a haven for wildlife: woodpeckers, voles, rabbits, squirrels, foxes; and most majestically the roe deer after which we named Hart & Hind.
We’re trying to create a balance: a productive site in harmony with nature. We don’t use pesticides and herbicides. Sometimes our neighbour’s sheep graze the orchard. We mow, but rarely, to let the poppies, daisies and buttercups grow, which encourages the ladybirds and other insects that keep aphids under control on the apple trees.
The farm was first created a hundred years ago, and since then much of it has naturally rewilded. Today half the site is a wildflower meadow and mature woodland of oak, ash and birch. The other three acres was once glasshouses. The glasshouse ruins are now being replaced by a traditional orchard, with wildflowers growing beneath the widely spaced apple trees and wild deer grazing the lush pasture and woodland. The soil is now teeming with life as rich biome has developed over the years.
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