Farmland Management

Bearwood Associates Limited provide a complete farmland habitat management and consultancy service. This includes:

• Entry and Higher Level Stewardship Applications
• Tir Gofal Applications
• Farm Environment Plans
• Farmland ecological consultancy and surveying
• Farmland hedgerow, orchard, spinney, and woodland planting schemes
• Farmland habitat management: hedge-laying and coppicing, tree pollarding, pond management and grassland management.

Hedge-laying in February under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme.		Neutral, species-rich grassland containing Greater knapweed and Bird’s-foot-trefoil.
Hay-making in late August on a Herefordshire hay meadow.		A Herefordshire hay meadow with newly established, traditional orchard trees.