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4.
Called to account
Local Community
We work where we live and we are deeply passionate about the
beautiful Herefordshire countryside and the people who live here.
We host an annual sustainability and craft event here to
demonstrate and promote low impact living called Spring
Greens Fair, now in its 14th year. The first two days of the fair
are specifically for the twenty or so local primary schools.
The Fair itself is attended by up to 2000 people now and the
feedback from the school teachers about the Schools’ Days
affirms their value to children, teaching staff and parents alike.
The business is located on a floodplain and the flood meadows
that are part of our surrounding farm are deliberately managed to
preserve effective drainage characteristics so that we can mitigate
some of the worst effects of local river flooding and field run off. At
times of high river levels it is noticeable that neighbouring fields
that are farmed for potatoes, maize and cereals have little drainage
capacity and run off into the river is immediate, exacerbating flood
risk to the villages of Pembridge and Eardisland.
We have now undertaken to take 15 acres of land out of agriculture
altogether in a pilot flood alleviation scheme with the Environment
Agency.
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