Restoring The Duke of Burgundy To Yorkshire
Restoring The Duke of Burgundy To Yorkshire
The Duchy of Lancaster has been working with a local conservation group in Yorkshire to protect a rare species of butterfly for more than a decade. In the UK, the intricately marked Duke of Burgundy was traditionally found on the chalk downlands of Southern England. However, in 2011, a small number were found in woodland […]
Sustainable Land Management in Whitewell
The Duchy’s Lancashire estates team hosted a meeting of all agricultural tenants on the Whitewell Estate at the end of September to share knowledge and ideas around the best methods of regenerative farming and sustainable land management. The evening began with an exploration of the ways in which the Duchy can best support tenants in […]
Replenishing Ancient Woodland
The Duchy of Lancaster has planted over 17,500 trees across 17.6 acres at Greaves Wood on the Needwood Estate in Staffordshire replenishing parts of the ancient woodland afflicted by Ash Dieback. The new plantings include a mix of native species, including oak, beech, cherry, hazel and mixed conifers, providing a resilient and sustainable habitat which […]
Shared Ambition For Sustainability
The Duchy of Lancaster is inviting farming tenants across of its rural estates to commit to a shared ambition for sustainability by signing up to individual Memoranda of Understanding developed in partnership with each holding. The initiative is the latest in a series of measures introduced over the past 24 months to keep tenants informed […]
Putting Sustainability Into Practice
Almost twenty of our farming tenants took part in a soil management workshop at the Allerton Project, a Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust research farm in Loddington, earlier this month. Hosted by soil management experts at the Allerton Project and facilitated by the Duchy’s rural team, the workshops took the form of tutorials covering soil […]
