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Denmark Farm is situated near Lampeter, Ceredigion, in Wales. Please see our contact details and location information.

The Shared Earth Trust at Denmark Farm – a unique conservation project pioneering the restoration of biodiversity to Britain's farmed countryside

Denmark Farm hay meadow in summer with a mosaic of wildflowers and wetter rushy areas

Based on its unique case study at Denmark Farm, the Trust has been pioneering the restoration of wildlife habitat to farmland since 1987.

Our studies range over Denmark Farm's integrated patchwork of restoring grassland, wetland, woodland, and scrub habitats, and their flora and fauna.

In tandem with this case study, we have developed an exceptional training and outreach programme and produce a range of publications in order to:-

  • share our experience and expertise and provide practical guidance;
  • help empower any landowner or farmer, large or small, to take minimal-cost, low-intervention conservation measures, in accordance with their own circumstances and site conditions;
  • help develop a growing network of landowners and farmers, who are sharing and learning from their experiences.
Small, shallow field scrape with rushes and other wet-habitat species

Scrapes (shallow ponds) are an important element in the range of habitats

Denmark Farm is also a visitor centre and community group resource with a wide range of accommodation and facilities available for hire year-round:-

  • as a place for use by organisations for their own activities and events;
  • as a base for exploring the wide variety of West Wales wildlife and countryside;
  • or simply as a rural retreat to rejuvenate mind, body and spirit.

“For me, the Shared Earth Trust has been a beacon of hope; its project at Denmark Farm has proved that some of the environmental destruction which besets our world can be reversed.”
Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future and Shared Earth Trust Patron

“There is still a basic lack of knowledge on how best to encourage increases in farmland biodiversity. Denmark Farm is one of the few places that is carrying out such work on a comprehensive and scientific basis.”
Tim Stowe, RSPB Cymru

All photographs taken by Neil Taylor, Neil Smith, Nick Hedges, Mike Abrahams and Robert McLelland.

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This document has been taken from the Shared Earth Trust Web site at http://www.shared-earth-trust.org.uk . The Trust can be contacted on 01570 493358.