Page 20 - Issue 68 Online

ALLPRESS FARMS

COUNTRYSIDE STEWARDSHIP SCHEME

Government and Natural England provide
advice to farmers, raising our awareness and
understanding of environmentally sustainable
land management. There are supportive
schemes such as the Countryside Stewardship
Scheme, which supports farmers with
capital items to achieve simple and effective
environmental benefits.

s farmers, we do not just use the land Allpress Farms has set
to produce the vegetables and cereals aside a quantity of land for
Athat you put on your table. We are
fortunate to be able to manage areas in an this specific scheme.
environmentally-friendly way for the benefit of
future generations and, of course, the flora and Such simple inputs can be providing winter
fauna with whom we share the earth. Our care bird food in green cover areas set aside for the
of the land is designed to improve biodiversity winter months. The planting and management
and water quality, and to enhance the natural of new hedges and tree coppicing (which is a
environment. pruning method where a tree or shrub is cut to
ground level to encourage the regeneration of
new stems).
Another initiative is to allow the land to
‘regenerate’ by leaving it as grassland and

Photographs courtesy of
Emsephotography

PAGE 20 www.maneamatters.com
20