Sharing Our Sustainability Ambitions
Sharing Our Sustainability Ambitions
As part of our shared journey towards greater long-term sustainability, we continue to encourage our farming tenants to enter into appropriate environmental schemes. On our Needwood Estate in Staffordshire, no fewer than 65 per cent of our farming tenants have already seized the opportunity. Furthermore, three of the 900 farms in England accepted onto the […]
Open Day At Myerscough College
Three of the farms on the Duchy’s Myerscough estate in Lancashire are let to independent land-based teaching institute, Myerscough College. The holdings in question include Lodge Farm, one of the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB)’s Strategic Dairy Farms and the oldest steading on the Duchy’s historic Lancashire Survey. Founded in 1894 as the Lancashire […]
900 Jubilee Trees Planted
As part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations this year, the Duchy of Lancaster is to plant almost 900 trees across its estates in Cheshire, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire in support of The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) initiative. 70 commemorative oak and pear trees have been planted across the key farm holdings and a new […]
Browns Go Green In Staffordshire!
A long-standing Duchy tenant is encouraging the return of pollinators, waterfowl and other species of indigenous wildlife to the hedgerows, ponds and field margins across their 350-acre farm in Staffordshire. Mrs Mary Brown and her son Graham entered into a 5-year Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship Scheme in 2019, after completing a five-year ELS scheme. Along with […]
