Nethergill Farm Langstrothdale
Hill farming challenges • Very low productivity • Huge uncertainties: • Weather • Growing season • Prices – input & output
Farming system
Marketing Product Offer Target markets Self catering High quality • Enthusiastic amateur naturalists accommodation • B&B Dales Way walkers • • Education Meeting room Schools (primary & secondary) Centre • Visual aids • Universities • • Microscope Enthusiastic amateur naturalists • • Telescopes Field societies • • Superfast broadband YWT, RSPB, YDNPA etc. • • Observation hides Ethnic minorities • Wildlife cameras • Board room away-day (weekends) • Ready meals Nethergill self catering • (beef & mutton) Nethergill Club members • Cattle Nethergill accommodation • White Shorthorn breeders • Blue Grey breeders • Hill farmers • (Morrisons) • Lamb Mutton for Nethergill accommodation • Store lambs to neighbouring farmer
How does ‘HNV’ farming underpin the Nethergill business? • More sustainable meat • More visitors • More educational trips • More contribution to overheads & profit
Education • To show that the needs of food, farming and the environment need not and should not be in conflict; • To ensure that guests/visitors leave Nethergill more knowledgeable than when they arrived; • Reading and listening will deepen knowledge; So: • Practical experience at Nethergill will deepen understanding.
Support How important is HLS: But more importantly: • Incredibly important • HLS gives an additional marketing lever Without HLS • Rare breeds • Higher stocking rates • Fantastic meat • Fertiliser • Wildlife tourism • Less bio-diversity • A virtuous circle • Less contribution
Supporting wildlife Cameras Rush control Bird hide Tree planting Nest boxes Hay meadow restoration Field/education centre
Supporting wildlife • Crossbills, Dippers, Buzzards, Merlin, Curlews, Black Grouse • Bird’s -eye primrose, • Dog Violets, Orchids, Yellow Rattle, Eyebright, Butterwort • Otter • Brown trout
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