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Nethergill Farm

Langstrothdale

• Very low productivity
• Huge uncertainties:
• Weather
• Growing season
• Prices – input & output

Hill farming challenges

Farming system

Marketing

Product Offer Target markets

Self catering High quality accommodation

• Enthusiastic amateur naturalists

B&B

• Dales Way walkers

Education Centre

• Meeting room
• Visual aids
• Microscope
• Telescopes
• Superfast broadband
• Observation hides
• Wildlife cameras
• Schools (primary & secondary)
• Universities
• Enthusiastic amateur naturalists
• Field societies
• YWT, RSPB, YDNPA etc.
• Ethnic minorities
• Board room away-day (weekends)

Ready meals (beef & mutton)

• Nethergill self catering
• 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

• 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.

Education

How important is HLS:

• Incredibly important

Without HLS

• Higher stocking rates
• Fertiliser
• Less bio-diversity
• Less contribution

But more importantly:

• HLS gives an additional

marketing lever

• Rare breeds
• Fantastic meat
• Wildlife tourism
• A virtuous circle

Support

Supporting wildlife

Nest boxes Tree planting Hay meadow restoration Rush control Cameras Bird hide Field/education centre

• Crossbills, Dippers,

Buzzards, Merlin, Curlews, Black Grouse

• Bird’s-eye primrose,
• Dog Violets, Orchids,

Yellow Rattle, Eyebright, Butterwort

• Otter
• Brown trout

Supporting wildlife