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CONSERVATION AT LOWSTEADS
At Lowsteads, we farm a mixed and rotational system. the fertility left behind after the animals have grazed the pastures is used to grow crops. A rebuilt stone wall with the farm in the background.
A rebuilt stone wall, reaching down to the sea. By ploughing up the pasture after a period of years, we can destroy the weeds and parasites that build up due to the constant grazing by stock.
As we graze cattle and sheep outside on pasture. We plant hedges, maintain fences and restore walls, both as a means of keeping the animals in the fields and to provide shelter for them. Of course the other obvious beneficiary of this type of farming is the wildlife which utilise the hedges for shelter and food. Some of our earliest hedge planting reaching maturity.
A young hawthorn hedge. With the aid of a grant from the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, since 1992 we have replaced and restored nearly 5,500 metres of hedging, planting in the process, about 38,000 hedge plants.
Also, a stone wall of over 400 metres (seen in the pictures above), was taken down and completely rebuilt.
Recently, we have undergone a large programme of building work and renovation, enabling us to house the animals in safe, modern and well ventilated buildings. Some of our new and re-furbished buildings