Our Environment

Our farm is sympathetically and actively managed to monitor and encourage a number of species on the government’s bio-diversity action plan. These species include barn owls, lapwings, brown hares and English grey partridge.

Our full time conservation manager and everyone involved with the farm works hard to ensure that the best possible environment is maintained to encourage wildlife. This work includes leaving winter stubbles until February to provide shelter and a food source to farmland birds over the winter months, putting up nesting boxes for the owls and setting up 240 bird feeding stations.

To ensure that the existing natural habitat is not overstretched we have also planted 48 acres of woodland, 2,934 trees and 21,660 metres of hedgerows – that’s enough hedgerow to enclose every Premiership and Championship football pitch in England and still have enough left over to enclose the top seven teams in league one!

As if that wasn’t enough Pollybell Organic Farm looks after a listed Ancient Monument, three Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and, with a further two on their borders, are working with Natural England and other public sector organizations to help achieve the Government’s target of improving SSSIs by 2010.