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John Atkinson

Pyes Bridge Farm near Milnthorpe, Cumbria, is a small lowland mixed arable, beef and sheep farm situated close to the border with Lancashire. The farm has species-rich grassland, wet grassland and also grows with a variety of spring sown cereals and potatoes. More...

Allison and Andrew Bond

Allison and Andrew Bond from Essex have a wide variety of birds and insects on their 113 ha arable farm. More...

Robin and Ben Butler

Nestled into the heart of the Avebury World Heritage Site lies the Butlers' farm at Avebury Trusloe, a mixture of permanent pasture, species-rich grassland and arable cropping. More...

Liz Davidson

Liz tells first-hand of her experiences of running a profitable farm, whilst attracting a wide range of bird life to the family land. More...

Chris Dowse

Chris Dowse talks about balancing profitable farming with helping wildlife on his north Lincolnshire farm. More...

George and Ann Eaton

Rectory Farm is a 60 hectare (150 acre) mixed farm in Buckinghamshire, with both Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) agreements in place. More...

Henry Edmunds

Witnessing the excesses of post-war agriculture management made Henry wish to farm in a way that worked with nature rather than against it. More...

George Fenemore

George and his family have run Home Farm, a 210 ha mixed farm in the Cherwell Valley in Oxfordshire, for 35 years. The farm grows a range of combinable crops, with a flock of 400 breeding ewes and a bee-keeping enterprise. More...

Stephen and Joceline Gibson

Birkdale is a 120 ha mixed arable and sheep farm in North Yorkshire with an impressive range of rare arable flowers. More...

Harry Goring

Harry Goring owns Findon Park Farm, which is part of the Wiston Estate on the South Downs in West Sussex. More...

David and Marian Harding

David and Marian Harding run a 222 ha mixed farm in East Sussex. The farm boasts a wide range of habitats including wet grassland, rough grassland, arable land, ponds, hedgerows and deciduous woodland. More...

Jim Hext

At Jim's 276 ha farm in Cornwall he's adapted the farming rotation to fit in with the Stewardship programme - discovering that it is possible to farm for wildlife without compromising the farm business. And he now has cirl buntings back after 20 years. More...

Andrew Holland

Andrew Holland is an incredibly passionate farmer and conservationist, who is a great advocate of how farming and conservation can work together. More...

Peter Howlett

Peter and his family have been farming 875 acres in Devon since they moved there in March 2002 from Dorset. More...

Robert Kynaston

Robert, who farms in Great Wollaston, Shropshire, entered into an agri-environment scheme over ten years ago and has seen how it has helped wildlife on this farm. More...

Robert Law

Robert is hosting Cereals 2010, the largest agricultural show for arable farmers, and wishes to show his visitors how integrating wildlife management makes business sense and delivers his contribution to the Campaign for the Farmed Environment. More...

Dr Darien Lott

Manor Farm, adjacent to the RSPB reserve at Titchwell Marsh, was entered into both the Entry (ELS) and Higher Level Schemes (HLS) in 2011. The 672-hectare farm hosts important populations of turtle doves, corn buntings and lapwings amongst others, as well as being one of the few places in North Norfolk where tree sparrow can still be seen. More...

Paul Simpson

I farm 300 hectares of the Lulworth Estate on the famous Jurassic Coast in Dorset, and have seen the postwar drive for production replaced by competition from a globalised food supply and a demand for ‘environmentally sustainable’ farming. More...

Michael Sly

Michael Sly is the Chairman of the Cambridgeshire Group of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment and a keen advocate of the Farmland Bird Package. More...

Simon Stott

Find out about Simon's farm at Chipping, Lancashire and how he has achieved a spectacular increase in the number of lapwings breeding there. More...

Catherine Thompson

Catherine Thompson and her family have always been interested in wildlife and conservation. The 420 ha mixed farm in East Yorkshire grows winter wheat, winter oats for Quakers, winter barley, oil seed rape, sugar beet and potatoes grown for Walkers. More...

David Willoughby de Broke

Lord David Willoughby de Broke's farm is a 365 ha mixed unit on the Gloucestershire/Warwickshire border. It holds good numbers of farmland birds with five of the 'arable six' recorded. More...

Tony Wood

Tony Wood manages Abbots Reading Farm, a traditional 157 ha beef and sheep farm in Cumbria, and is passionate about extensively managing the farm’s varied habitats. More...