Lancashire and Westmorland Hedgelaying Association

The Lancashire & Westmorland Hedgelaying Association have since 2000 been trying to encourage the practice of hedgelaying particularly in the traditional local style.

Backs Bottom Farm

This is a hill farm with sheep and some fruit trees including traditional English apple varieties. The farm has a “camping barn” located on the site. Also on site is a small training barn. There is a renewable energy electricity system.

Telephone: 015242 22214

Clough Bottom Farm

Clough Bottom Farm is a working organic beef farm, which over has expanded through diversification to include a tree nursery, grazing for horses, three holiday cottages and a training centre.

Telephone 01254 826222 www.cloughbottom.co.uk and www.focus-training.net

Claytime

This is diversification of a farm business. Claytime Ltd is a new venture as a firearms dealership offering repairs, training on shooting ranges and in gun handling and clothing accessories.

Telephone: 01200 423111 www.claytime.co.uk

International Bracken Group

The International Bracken Group exists to encourage and promote all aspects of work with bracken fern and to educate through the dissemination of information.

www.heathertrust.co.uk

F.W.Huddleston

This is a farm which also has a groundwork and landscaping business and has further diversified into operating an equine livery yard offering some instruction on horse riding.

Telephone: 01524 736205 www.fwhuddleston.co.uk

Meadowcroft Dairy

This is a 455 acre dairy farm milking 400 cows. The farm rears its own youngstock and grows maize to feed the cows. In addition the farm has a chicken unit on site. The farm bottles its own milk off site currently and has a distribution business for milk, eggs, chicken and other products.

Telephone: 01995 679307

Horton Grange Farm

This is a farm rearing pedigree cattle. A wind turbine and battery system has been installed to generate and store electricity.

Telephone: 01200 415961

Thornton Hall Farm

The farm has taken on rare breeds of animals such as the ancient British breed of “White Park” Cattle. The owners have converted the buildings into extensive animal display areas which allow good viewing of the animals and have built a new tearoom and education room.

Telephone: 01282 841075 www.thorntonhallcountrypark.co.uk

Startifants Farm

This is a beef and dairy farm with a butchers retail outlet based in Chipping. The retail butchers business sells beef and dairy from its own and other local farms, the pork is sourced through Bowland Forest Food Co-operative farmers group.

Telephone: 01995 61515

Higher Spen Farm

This is a beef and sheep farm, the owners have had an interest in horses for a number of years and have stabled and grazed horses on the farm. Jane is trained in the management of horses including artificial insemination.

Farm Plastic Recycling

Farm Plastics Recycling was a farm based diversification scheme and supplies bins to farmers to store waste plastic. The waste is then collected brought to a central point, and taken to a recycling plant in Dumfries.

Telephone: 01995 61209

Hall Trees Farm

Hall Trees Farm comprises 60 acres of farmland and 600 lambing sheep. Robin decided to purchase a portable sheep shower a few years ago and now has an established sheep shower contracting business. 

Telephone: 01995 61347

RSPB

Several training seminars have been delivered including a wader training day. Several more training days are in the pipeline.

Contact Gary Woodburn on 01200 426433

Park House Farm

A local dairy farmer who wanted to install a covered midden to reduce the possibility of pollution from the animal waste. 

Telephone: 01200 445319

Curwin Hill Farm

This intensive beef and sheep farm has recently purchased a covered midden to reduce the possibility of water pollution.

Telephone: 01524 221255

Lower Fairsnape Farm

Lower Fairsnape Farm is a farm SME which has already put 83% of its land into stewardship or woodland management and a large part of this is to encourage breeding birds. New wetland areas have been created and the farm is established as an important hot spot from breeding Lapwing, Redshank, Curlew and Snipe.

Telephone: 01995 61343

Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust

The Ribble Catchment Conservation Trust was set up in 1999 and since then has completed 22km of river improvement work.

Telephone: 01200 448619 www.ribbletrust.org.uk

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