• Cover Crops and bird populations at Hope Farm
    Olivia Martin, an MSc Zoology student from Anglia Ruskin University, investigated the impact of cover crops, cultivations, and other crops on winter bird populations, using 5 years worth of monitoring...
  • Hope Farm 20th Anniversary Webinar Series - Webinar 2 Cover Crops, Soil Health and Biodiversity
    A summary of the 2nd Webinar in Hope Farm's 20th Anniversary series, by Sophie Mott, RSPB’s Conservation Advisor for Cambridgeshire If you’ve read the previous blog, you’ll already know about Hope Farm...
  • A look back on 2022 – including our oilseed rape insecticide-free trial
    An opportunity to reflect on the last year at RSPB Hope Farm, by Georgie Bray, Hope Farm Manager. Winter is well settled in now on the farm, although it has been a long time coming. The scorching 40...
  • A difficult cropping year at Hope Farm
    The weather dictates everything in farming whether you are an arable or livestock farmer. For us as an arable farm cultivations, spraying operations and harvesting are all at the mercy of the weather...
  • Hope Farm 20th Anniversary Webinar Series 3 – Ecological Intensification
    A summary of the 3rd Webinar in Hope Farm's 20th Anniversary series, by Sophie Mott, RSPB’s Conservation Advisor for Cambridgeshire Here we are again! If you’ve gotten this far perhaps you’ve seen the...