White Peak Farmers
We are a facilitation group made up of local farmers and land managers in the Peak District and its fringes who are working together to help create a better environment, produce sustainable food and build greater resilience in farming.
Our aim is to bring about nature recovery on our farms and across the landscape, enabling our land to provide wide public benefits, alongside high quality and sustainable food.
We are open to all and welcome new members as well as volunteers to help us with our activities. You can join our mailing list or if you want to find out how to register as a member, Get in touch!
Diverse Wildlife: Waders, Wood & Grassland
The area has a wealth of wildlife and between us we have limestone grassland, traditional species-rich hay meadows and pastures, ancient woodlands, wood pasture and parkland and wet grassland, which support populations of waders such as lapwing, snipe and curlew, as well as the specialist woodland birds, pied flycatcher and willow tit, and grassland species including grey partridge and brown hare.
Our work is helping to protect and restore these important habitats and species, which we believe can go hand in hand with farming and food production.
Our historical and archaeological heritage is also rich with the ancient field systems of ridge and furrow apparent in many fields, and burial mounds and medieval deer parks features of the area too. The landscape is strongly characterised by prominent hills and valleys and the River Dove wends its way to the east.
Our Area
Our core area is the southern part of the White Peak but we work across the Peak District and Staffordshire/Derbyshire fringes, with our members spanning from Reapsmoor to Rocester and across to Idridgehay and Riber in Derbyshire.
Our mission is to support farmers and landowners to work together to bring about environmental benefits across the landscape. Find out how to join us and become a member here.
If you would like to support the group, or if you are interested in joining us please contact us.
News from White Peak Farmers
Restoring historic & landscape features – Oldfields Farm
The Peak Park Conservation Volunteers (PPCV) and Fit4Work team have helped to restore stonewalls and an historic dew pond at Oldfields Farm. The work has been funded by Severn-Trent but…
Floodplain meadow restoration – Old Hall Farm
We received funding from Severn Trent Water through their Boost for Biodiversity programme, which has funded the creation of wetland habitat and restoration of floodplain meadows on the River Dove…
Oldfields Farm visit
In June, our member, Alan Simpson and his family from Oldfields Farm kindly hosted a wide audience of farmers, conservation organisations and others as a demonstration of traditional farming in…