Published:
5:30 AM August 4, 2021
Updated:
6:04 AM August 4, 2021
The new Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network covers 100,000 acres of a landscape which is home to more than 12,800 species
- Credit: Mike Page
A vast network of Breckland farmers is hoping to become a national template for how wildlife conservation can be achieved within an important agricultural landscape.
Believed to be the largest farmland cluster in lowland UK, it aims to protect and enhance the special wildlife of the Brecks, guided by a UEA-led biodiversity audit in 2010 which catalogued 12,843 species - many of which are found nowhere else in the country.
The stone curlew is one of the many wildlife species associated with the Brecks
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Published:
6:00 AM January 30, 2021
Updated:
3:36 PM February 1, 2021
Olivia Shave, a sheep farmer from East Harling, has given her recipe for a hearty sausage and bean cassrole.
- Credit: Olivia Shave
With not very much to look forward as the third national lockdown continues, a warm, comforting meal can be just what you need at the end of the day.
Owner Olivia Shave, with her daughter Jenna at The Studio farm and gift shop at Middle Harling.
- Credit: Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Copyright: Archant 2021
Mrs Shave said: “Its chilly outside and everyone is busy either working from home or teaching the kids so here s an idea to keep those bellies full, with minimal time and effort.
And up until November, Mrs Shave said profits were 70pc up on the year before.
But as December came and went and the country was forced into a third national lockdown, the business owner said now their customers “have just gone”.
Local produce at The Studio farm and gift shop in West Harling.
- Credit: Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Copyright: Archant 2021
In an online Facebook post, on Monday, January 25, she wrote: “Feeling heartbroken, facing the terrible dilemma to close our beautiful farm shop.
“On the balance sheet or by any other financial test we are not insolvent but after so many months of uncertainty, mothballing, declining orders and incurring ongoing costs we don t know how much longer we will survive.