National Tree Week is the UK’s biggest annual celebration of trees, marking the start of the winter tree planting season and reminding us of the vital role trees play in our landscapes, wildlife habitats, and cultural heritage. This year, we wanted to take a more personal approach. So, we asked members of the FWAG East team one simple question: “What is your favourite tree, and why?” The answers discuss not only the deep connection we all share with trees but also the incredi

On a bright summer morning, Farm Environment Adviser Emily Stacey set off on a dragonfly walk through the Panshanger Nature Reserve, a...

This June, FWAG East hosted a joyful summer gathering to celebrate two things close to our hearts: the vibrant beauty of wildflower...

This week I had the privilege of attending the 46th FWAG Silver Lapwing Award ceremony, held this year on the Isle of Man. Like...

Yesterday evening, around 80 guests gathered at Finches Farm in Hertfordshire to celebrate excellence in conservation farming at the...

For most of Britain’s ecological history our landscapes were anything but static. They were shaped by the continual movement, disturbance...

Easneye is a farming estate in rural East Hertfordshire. Henrietta and Nicholas Buxton live at Watersplace, near a ford and an old...

Restoring choked up old ponds on home ground was a long held dream. Credit J McNaughton. I have, for five years now, had the privilege of...

Thank you, dear members, for all the responses to our recent survey. From it, we learned that a large majority of you make good use of...

Today, on World Soils Day, we shine a spotlight on the lifeblood of farming: soil. Often overlooked and underestimated, soil is the...

Here at FWAG East we have to confess that our hearts rather skip a beat at the sight of a well-laid hedge. This bucolic art conjures...

When we got the call from Natural England strategists back in 2019 to see if we could help them deliver a trail-blazing new approach to...

FWAG East members and guests enjoyed an enlightening insight into a trail blazing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) site this month, on a...

As the nights draw in it's always good to have things to look forward to and we are looking forward to connecting with members old and...

One of the highlights of 2023's Groundswell Festival was a lecture by Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of...

Earlier in July, FWAG East was given special access to Chippenham Fen in Cambridgeshire for a guided walk with Natural England through...

Nothing in farming gives us FWAG Advisers goose bumps more than restoring ghost ponds (except perhaps combines. We all love a combine!)....

A regenerative arable farmer from Hertfordshire has won the 2024 FWAG East Farm Conservation Award. Andrew Bott of Finches Farm,...

National Hedgerow Week has rolled around again and my thoughts turn with gratitude to the farmers up and down the country who do their...

Farmers can now be paid to carry out a ‘condition assessment’ of hedgerows on their farms under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)....