New colonies of silver spotted skipper and small blue this season, appearing on two new grasslands created over last 15 years in the lower Lydden valley, part of a 4 mile seamless network of new sp. rich/diverse grasslands. Farmers leading nature recovery at landscape scale 🪲🦋
Many thanks to @niels_corfield and hosting by @kentsheep for an inspiring afternoon for our East Kent valleys farmer group, looking at soil health and regen ag.
Best of luck to @EllieBrook_ , @kentsheep and Ian Oliver, who will be running the @LondonMarathon in support of FCN this weekend (3rd October). Have a fantastic race everyone - you're all winners and we really appreciate your support!
A big thank you and good luck to our virtual @LondonMarathon runners @EllieBrook_, @kentsheep and Tracy who are training hard ahead of October's race.
Thank you for choosing to support FCN 🏃♀️
Big thanks to Shelvin Farm & Boyington Court Farm @kentsheep for hosting our east kent valleys farmer group walk today. Species-rich meadow creation/arable reversion, herbal/legume leys, sainfoin and hedges. Farmers recovering 🦋🪲🌼🐦
Spotted 👀 at Perry Court Farm 💙 Kent Crisps in plentiful supply, including the newest addition to our range, Lamb & Rosemary 🙌🏻
If you’re near #Wye, do be sure to stop in at this lovely family run farm shop who are such great supporters of local businesses.
Staying true to our signature approach of working with Kent producers to create classic flavours using real produce with a local twist, the new flavour uses grass fed Romney lamb from Kent Shepherd (@kentsheep)
On national meadows day: Creating a new generation of 🌼 rich grasslands@landscapescale from arable/sp.poor grasslands has been our No1 focus for 25 yrs.Long term 1-1 working with farms to build year by year #naturerecoverynetworks. A win-win for 🦋🌼🐜🐦,soil health,C capture...