• Carbon and agroforestry at Hope Farm - new project underway
    Guest blog by Sophie Mott, Carbon Farming Project Manager and Georgie Bray, Hope Farm Manager Why are we interested in Carbon at Hope farm? Recently, hard to read science underlined the ever-closing...
  • Big boots to fill at Hope Farm
    Guest post from Georgie Bray The RSPB has seen four different farm managers since purchasing Hope Farm back in the Autumn of 1999. Each manager has brought something new to the role, and the most recent...
  • Signs of the times at Hope Farm
    Blog by Georgina Bray, Hope Farm Hope Farm has been a showcase of current times in agriculture this March. Skylarks and yellowhammers are singing, and lapwings displaying a sure sign that spring is...
  • Trending at Hope Farm
    None of those who work at Hope Farm are social media junkies, but yet we cannot completely escape that world. Whether we’re exposed to Twitter, Facebook or even the BBC we see this term ‘trending’ everywhere...
  • Hairstreaks and brocades at Hope Farm
    Much of the biodiversity monitoring that takes place at Hope Farm is focused on birds, as you would expect. Fifteen years of breeding and wintering bird surveys has shown just how well birds have recovered...