April 2020 - South Down Farming

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The history of the Downs, and the way it looks today, is inextricably linked with the history of farming. It is a place marked by centuries of cultivation without which we would not have our patchwork pattern of fields, sweeping chalk grassland and extensive network of field boundaries.

April 23, 2020

Arun Valley Breeding Wader Project

The Arun Valley is a hotspot for breeding waders. Its cattle grazed floodplain pastures and extensive ditch network provide ...

Eastern South Downs

April 06, 2020

Managing Botanical Diversity at a Landscape Scale

At the end of February, the Eastern South Downs Farmer Cluster met to discuss farming practices being carried elsewhere ...

South Downs Farmland Bird Initiative

April 01, 2020

South Downs Farmland Bird Initiative 2019 results

Since 2014 a survey has been running across the South Downs National Park to track numbers of priority farmland ...