Farming & wildlife
Take a look around the farm - and enjoy the wildlife - with the photos below
The Hawkins family are passionate about the farm, its wildlife and its history - and we all work in the environment one way or another on and off the farm!
Milden Hall farm is comprised of 500 acres of environmentally-friendly farmed rotational arable crops - wheat, oil seed rape, sugar beet, barley - with ancient wildflower hay meadows (a County Wildlife Site), sheep-grazed castle earthworks (a Scheduled Ancient Monument), together with woods, ponds, grass margins and farm trails for guests. 10% of the farm is in wildlife habitat including acres put down to wildbird cover, pollen, nectar and bumblebird mixes. We contract farm another 200 acres for neighbours.
Farm wildlife is varied and hugely important to us. From rare stoneworts in ponds, to shield bugs and hoverflies, great crested newts, wildflowers, fungi and birds, we’re completely passionate about them! We protect, improve and create habitat for them, we photograph them, record them and write about them.
