The latest news from the Upper Beult Farmer Cluster

July 2024 Update 

Volunteer Bird Survey Week  We have collaborated with Operation Turtle Dove to help support these threatened birds within the Upper Beult. Many cluster members have

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June 2024 Update 

Owl Box Checks in the Cluster  I have been out recently with Chas Holt checking the barn owl boxes that were purchased for members last

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A turtle dove in the grass looking at the camera.

Spring Update 2024

Header image ©️ Dawn Monrose There were fantastic turn outs for the nightingale event in April and the turtle dove event in May!   With attendees

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A wet woodland with trees reflecting in the water.

March 2024 Update

March Update – Landscape Recovery in the Beult, Kerry Williams  Thank you to everyone who attended the Landscape Recovery meeting at Marden Cricket and Hockey

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A group standing in a field for a Healthy Hedgerows workshop.

February 2024 Update

An update from Ellen Wilson February has yet again been another busy month with lots of events happening in the catchment. Making Space for Nature 

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Coppiced wood at Holborough Marshes

January 2024 Update

January Update – Coppicing for Wildlife, Rosemary Holden KWT Warden On 11th January, Ellen joined me and the Medway Wetland volunteers for some coppicing at

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A wheat field under a blue sky in Kent.

December Update

Water quality round-up  Southern Water regularly samples water from fixed locations on the River Beult, and wider Medway, to help us understand what the risks

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People standing in the Green Farm barn for lunch during the Upper Beult Cluster Meeting.

November Update

Upper Beult Cluster Meeting and Farm Walk – 6th November 2023 – Green Farm  Earlier this month we organised the Upper Beult Cluster Meeting and

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A leaky woody dam with riparian buffer strips in Shadoxhurst, Kent.

October Update

October kicked off with the Making Space for Nature in Kent and Medway launch at Lenham. In total there were 150 people from across the

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The Kent Wildlife Trust and Farmer Cluster stands at a ploughing match in Kent.

September Update

September has been an exciting month with a lot of the focus being on ploughing matches! I hear the Romney Marsh was a great success

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Kent Wildlife Trust River Search bag and nitrogen measurement card next to a stream.

August Update

August has flown by and with it, not the most settled summer weather! Between rain showers and colder mornings, it hasn’t really felt like what

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July Update

Over the last few months, I have been out and about with the cluster camera trap seeing what wildlife is on members farms. We have

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