Martin Down Farmer Supercluster
@MDSuperCluster
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Three Farmer Clusters surrounding Martin Down NNR - improving biodiversity, soil & water together. Est. 2016, with an aim to last for generations!
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Joined October 2019
RT @MeganRural: Listen! Quail calling. Sounds like ."wet my lips!".I heard it on one of the farms MartinDownFarmerCluster @MDSuperCluster t….
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RT @MeganRural: 26 miles walked this week - highlights were silver-washed fritillary (too fast for photo), over 40 DG frits, watching corn….
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Megan, our Martin Down #FarmerCluster facilitator is out on farm today doing butterfly surveys (WCBS) which is done annually (twice - July/Aug) on all the farms to monitor abundance and diversity - since the baseline in 2017!! @MeganRural #followthescience @Gameandwildlife
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RT @MeganRural: A first for me! An Emperor Moth, in the grass on the pristine chalk downland at MartinDown in the heart of our #FarmerClust….
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RT @TrooperSnooks: Nesting season is in full swing. Please keep your dog to heel. #WordsFromTheHedge
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Eye spy. Our Martin Down #FarmerCluster mentioned in the @TheCriticMag.written by @TrooperSnooks From the first pilot - Allenford FC in 2013, 1/3 of our supercluster. The current @labour.gov plans don't include wildlife, farmer clusters or family farms
thecritic.co.uk
British farming is a peculiar business. Rarely does one farm enterprise feel they are in direct competition with another.
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RT @CranborneEstate: At our farmer cluster Christmas party last night, chair Rob Shepherd gave a heartfelt thank you to @Gameandwildlife CE….
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Farmer Cluster training today - In field habitat creation and management - flower-rich margins and plots, hedges, cultivated for arable plants, unharvested, and beetle bank demo .Expertly led by @francis_buner Senior Conservation Scientist at @Gameandwildlife. #SpeciesRecovery
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Our much awaited MartinDown #FarmerCluster calendar has landed and is now on sale @Gameandwildlife online shop!Please support us by buying one to aid our project of informing more people about our FarmerCluster #farmingwithnature #speciesrecovery #Outreach
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Well done to @NuntonFarmDairy, who are in our Allenford Farmer Cluster, for being a finalist in two @FarmersWeekly awards - Dairy and Environment. You do such a great job! #HarvestEveryDay #FarmerCluster
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Rob Shepherd, the Lead Farmer of our Allenford Farmer Cluster wins a well deserved @FarmersWeekly award! Read more here.
fwi.co.uk
Rob Shepherd from Hampshire, an eco-system service provider, is the Farmers Weekly Game Changer of the Year 2024. In an age when society demands ever more
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A massive congratulations to our Lead Farmer, Rob Shepherd - Allenford Farmer Cluster, who won the Game Changer award last night @farmersweekly. We are immensely proud!.@EnvFarmersGroup #EFG #FarmerCluster @longfordestates @Gameandwildlife
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Have you found any harvest mice nests yet this year? Here's one so you can get your eye in! We have breeding harvest mice across all the three #FarmerClusters which make up the Supercluster. Generally found on beetle banks, margins and hedges
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Today we were visited by @UC_Sparsholt 1st Year Agriculture students. Martin Down FC Facilitator @MeganRural and farmers of one of the farms guided them round their land and explained what a #FarmerCluster is, projects undertaken,ongoing monitoring,successes, #RegenFarming & more
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Our Facilitator @MeganRural spoke about baseline surveys, ongoing monitoring and data analysis, self-funded, increasing biodiversity, regenerative farming, GWCT and farmers investing in practitioner science, red-listed species increasing, farming with nature, @EnvFarmersGroup. .
Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing a group of delegates attending the Big Chalk Conference, inc Sir John Lawton(!),about the fantastic self-funded work farmers and gamekeepers do on MartinDown & Allenford #FarmerCluster supported by GWCT #farmingwithnature #DataIsKey
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That's harvest finished for one of our members of Allenford Farm - Wick Farm. One of the first to be finished this year #Harvest24 and looking pleased about it too!.Photo taken by their farm shop and bakery: Stable and Wick.
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Hornet robberfly, Britain's largest fly spotted by our Facilitator @MeganRural on a farm in the MartinDown #FarmerCluster. A species declined 21% (1980-00)-an indicator of the state of our countryside for invertebrates. Confined to c 40 isolated breeding sites @Buzz_dont_tweet
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RT @MeganRural: #Harvest24 is underway. Combines are out in Dorset and Wiltshire today on farms in the @MDSuperCluster. Plumes of dust and….
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