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29/12/2003
Derbyshire farmer protects marsh marigolds, willow trees and lapwings
A Derbyshire farmer is taking rare local wildlife under his wing on the family farm with funding from Defra's Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS).
Stephen Potter runs Manor Farm, at Bonsall, near Matlock. The farm contains a brook and marshy grassland, which is home to a number of rare flowers and trees, such as orchids, marsh marigolds and the Derbyshire rarity, bay willow tree. The CSS funding will help Mr Potter to carry out a number of land management measures, such as fencing, walling, scrub clearance and hedgerow restoration, in order to preserve the natural habitats.
The Stewardship agreement will also include work to keep the brook clean, making it a welcoming home for invertebrates and small mammals. Mr Potter, wife Tricia, daughter Catherine and son David, will also ensure that over-wintered stubbles are left on the hay meadows to provide nesting and feeding habitat for breeding lapwing.
Stephen Potter said:
"There are one or two lapwings that come round year after year. We've got quite a few pheasants and over the last couple of years I've seen a snipe. I just thought it would be nice to preserve the wildlife habitat. As you get older, you think you might as well use less intensive methods to keep the farm more natural and thanks to Defra's Countryside Stewardship Scheme, that is exactly what we are achieving."
Mandy Heathcote, Countryside Stewardship Adviser with Defra's Rural Development Service, said:
"Manor Farm is a rarity in that it's a truly mixed farm, with a dairy herd and meadows. The Countryside Stewardship Scheme agreement will help to preserve the habitats of the rare wildlife which can be found there."
Kieron Huston, Senior Wildlife Sites Officer for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, welcomed news of work to preserve land on the farm, part of which is a county wildlife site.
He said: "It's great to see and hear about a site that's being taken from strength to strength."
Stephen Potter runs Manor Farm, at Bonsall, near Matlock. The farm contains a brook and marshy grassland, which is home to a number of rare flowers and trees, such as orchids, marsh marigolds and the Derbyshire rarity, bay willow tree. The CSS funding will help Mr Potter to carry out a number of land management measures, such as fencing, walling, scrub clearance and hedgerow restoration, in order to preserve the natural habitats.
The Stewardship agreement will also include work to keep the brook clean, making it a welcoming home for invertebrates and small mammals. Mr Potter, wife Tricia, daughter Catherine and son David, will also ensure that over-wintered stubbles are left on the hay meadows to provide nesting and feeding habitat for breeding lapwing.
Stephen Potter said:
"There are one or two lapwings that come round year after year. We've got quite a few pheasants and over the last couple of years I've seen a snipe. I just thought it would be nice to preserve the wildlife habitat. As you get older, you think you might as well use less intensive methods to keep the farm more natural and thanks to Defra's Countryside Stewardship Scheme, that is exactly what we are achieving."
Mandy Heathcote, Countryside Stewardship Adviser with Defra's Rural Development Service, said:
"Manor Farm is a rarity in that it's a truly mixed farm, with a dairy herd and meadows. The Countryside Stewardship Scheme agreement will help to preserve the habitats of the rare wildlife which can be found there."
Kieron Huston, Senior Wildlife Sites Officer for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, welcomed news of work to preserve land on the farm, part of which is a county wildlife site.
He said: "It's great to see and hear about a site that's being taken from strength to strength."
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