A nature-led farm in the High Peak

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Come and learn the fine art of dry stone walling with Lantra qualified professional waller, Connor Lomax, over this 2-day course here at Sunart Fields on 17/18th May. Vouchers available.

Bringing back a balance.

 

Sunart Fields is a 125 acre upland farm based in the High Peak, Derbyshire, working to restore a healthy balance with nature. Until 2019 the land was operated as an active dairy farm, and 100 years prior to that was coal mined.

We now manage the land in a restorative way, creating the conditions that will allow nature to thrive.

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Thank you to our friends and volunteers.

We are lucky to live in a community with plenty of people passionate about restoring nature and ecosystems, who have been willing to put on their boots and play a part. 40,000 trees have been planted on the land thus far, creating a mosaic of woodland, scrub and open glades.

We are grateful for volunteers.

 

From time to time we host events and organise volunteer days.

If you would like to get involved please email us.

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We are delighted to have hosted @theseawithinmindfulness for a children’s art, mindfulness and yoga retreat here today. Making drawing nests in the long grass, painting affirmations, collecting wild grasses and petals for a magic potion, moment
Day by day, the land gets a little bit wilder… fantastic to have so much scrub enjoying the chance to spread out on the land. Chastised for so long and by so many people, scrub is ‘the’ habitat to have. It provides homes to all man
Midsummer moonlight in the wildflower meadow. #wildflowermeadow #nofilters
Many thanks to all of those who took part in Connor’s dry stone walling tuition this weekend. Fantastic weather and instruction was had by all. Such events are great ways at marrying together a mixture of skills-training, camaraderie, and farmi
Delighted to have hosted one of the UK’s most inspirational and knowledgable naturalists/rewilders, @derekjgow. Derek is an expert and bringing back lost and endangered species (he brought back the @beaver to the U.K!!!). He provided @sunartfie
A sample of the flowers that are in bloom on the land this week. Hawthorn, Speedwell, Mayflower, Field Buttercup, Vetch, Stitchwort, Common Bistort, Yellow Rattle, Yarrow and Ribwort Plantain. Also (not pictured) Heath Bedstraw, Chickweed, Clover, an
It turns out that when pigs are left to their own devices with sufficient space and foliage, they resort to inherent and natural behaviour, such as this, nest building! We came across this large pig nest made by the girls by moving grass and dock lea