The Duchy Farming Family
The Duchy Farming Family
We hosted an informal meeting of our Lancashire farming tenants in Whitewell at the end of last year as part of our drive to encourage them to learn about the regenerative farming practices adopted by their peers and to share their own ideas and practical experiences. Over 20 tenants attended the evening event which included […]
Regenerative Farming Practices: Knowledge-Sharing
One of the farming tenants on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire held a very successful ‘Pasture for Life’ (PfL) event at the end of August. Janet Smalley is a passionate advocate for soil health and regenerative farming methodologies, and she and her husband Andrew are one year into the process of transforming their traditional farming […]
Leave Only Footsteps….
Two of our rural surveyors took time out today to join local schoolchildren on a litter pick in the village of Dunsop Bridge on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. Lydia Richards and James Pyrah joined forces with pupils at Thorneyholme RC Primary School after Headteacher Mrs Olga Jackson invited the youngster to ‘clear up our […]
Whitewell Hedge Restoration Project
Following the biodiversity audit of our rural estates carried out in partnership with Natural England and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), the rural team has been looking at ways of improving and enhancing our hedgerow habitats. Last year the team audited all of the hedgerows across our Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. This showed […]
Festive Fir Trees!
The Duchy of Lancaster was delighted to provide Christmas trees grown on its rural estates to local village halls, schools and churches once again this year. Organisations across our Cheshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire estates were amongst those who requested a fir tree for the festive season in December 2022, organised and delivered by the Duchy’s […]
