When it’s summer, and you still need wellies, and they spring a leak! Will they make it to the Autumn...? #Farming

A seamless 3 mile swathe of ex arable grasslands grading through chalk,neutral & acid soils on these farms @spow004 -a key link in our Stour valley NRN. Yellowwort, kid' vetch,pyr' orch',hay rattle & sorrel. Expert grazing from stuart jakeman Meadow pip'&dingy skip' recent colonists

Big thanks to Kent Wildlife Trust & vols, Dean Farm and Elmsted Court Farm for this this green hay transfer project taking 🌼rich hay from 2 sites and expertly spread by @farmerstu on his newly created wildflower bank to complete 3 mile corridor of 🌼rich grasslands in our Stone Street NRN

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Our latest film, working 1-1 long term with farms to create large networks of wildflower grasslands. Farms doing nature recovery👍 Thx to all farms inc' George Jessel Robert Maylam stuart jakeman Adam🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ElmfieldStrawCottage 💙 T Denne & Sons Chartham Vineyard @spow004 youtu.be/gho7BvctPyY

Thank you to Dan Tuson, Dan Tussan & chilton farm Dover 4 hosting. Really interesting & informative day with @minibeastmayhem learning about dung beetles there important roll within are environment, soil, & how they are vital part & primary indicator of our eco system. Thanks

Huge thanks to @minibeastmayhem for a truly inspiring day on dung beetles, soil health & ecosystem services with our East Kent Valleys Farmer group & Kent Bat Group 🦇🦇🦇.Great to see #dungbeetles in the field & big thanks to Chilton Farm and their #bluealbion cattle for hosting the day

Great to see another new colony for small blue establishing on our networks of arable reversion in our project areas. This one in our stour valley/stone street network all thanks to commitment of farm @spow004 with help of grazier stuart jakeman.Farms leading nature recovery 👍🦋

It seems that Southern Water have updated their BeachBouy interactive map. They will no longer change the colour of a bathing location to red if a sewage (CSO) release doesn't meet certain criteria. (1/5)

Thank you ⁦stuart jakeman⁩ for hosting an interesting farm tour this afternoon. Lots to see #covercrops #css #wildflowerplots #regen #composttea ⁦Dan Tuson⁩ ⁦@KentDownsAONB⁩

A big thank you to stuart jakeman for hosting our east kent farmer groups event discussing regen ag,CSF, wildflower grasslands, stewardship, agronomy & @kentdownsAONB FIPL-funded biological applicator drill. Big thx to Doug Taylor, Keith Truett, Mitchell Rae & all farmers today

More evidence of the need for a l'scape scale approach to wildflower grassland creation to drive sp' recov' 🪲🐦🌷🦇🐝with these green winged orchids appearing on this 20yr old arable reversion, a contiguous 130ha sweep linking 4 farms. Great work from stuart jakeman @spow004

An ever growing resource of new sp rich grasslands =an ever growing resource for green hay spreading.Four neighbouring farms in Covet Valley working together today to exchange sp rich hay with big thx to stuart jakeman for expert spreading with straw chopper. Farms leading 🦋recov'

Last of the spring barley going in today, cover crop got away….#springdrilling #farming

Was renewing my phone&broadband the other day. Apparently analogue landlines are going off in Dec25 and landlines will have to be internet based only. Thunderstorm now has knocked out power. Also to the nearest mobile mast. 1/2

Great day with [email protected] Tim Williams at Nonington Farms talking and listening to a practicing practitioner of herbal ley and grazing management. Thanks to Kent Downs National Landscape and Pasture For Life

'They (farms) will all be bought by foreigners, outsiders, people who are who are not buying it for the love of the countryside.' Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells Bev Turner 🌸 why he is supporting farmers at a rally in London today.

Retweet this ⬇️ Absolutely fantastic interview, eloquently put Ollie and perfectly explained.

CBI Economics have stated the Labour government’s inheritance tax on family businesses will mean over 125,000 job losses and cost twice what it raises in tax. It’s a disaster waiting to happen and must be reversed by the government before any further collateral damage occurs.

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