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  29 February 2024

  EFG Director on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today

  Listen to EFG Director Josh Stratton speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today this morning about the Wylye Valley Farmers plans for their Landscape Recovery river restoration project. Farming Today […]

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  31 January 2024

  The Big Farmland Bird Count needs your help and ‘the rewards are immeasurable’

  “Sitting with some of the farmers’ children and pointing out birds to them is so rewarding. Building friendships with the farmers and their families is great and having an open […]

• 31 January 2024

  GWCT CEO Teresa Dent outlines ‘transformational’ farm initiative in Environmental Audit Committee evidence session

  On Wednesday 24 January, Teresa Dent CBE was on a panel of experts giving their witness statements about the role of natural capital in the green economy. Teresa joined Minette […]

• 17 January 2024

  EFG featured in Show House magazine

• 15 January 2024

  More coverage for EFG in Farmers Weekly

  Farmer interest in trading natural capital is in the ascendancy. Legislation has just been passed requiring house builders and commercial developers to deliver at least a 10% improvement in biodiversity […]

• 12 January 2024

  GFI launches toolkit

  EFG is happy to share news from the Green Finance Institute that today it has published a first-of-its-kind toolkit, developed in collaboration with over 100 farmers, for farmers. Its aim is to […]

• 8 December 2023

  The Times: EFG begins work with investors in natural capital sector

  Today, The Times reported EFG’s work with investors Inspired Villages. EFG is looking at how it can build long-term relationships with institutional organisations and its members in the natural capital […]

• 7 December 2023

  Expanding environmental farmers’ cooperatives now cover over 580,000 acres, 2.9% of England’s farmed area

  The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF) and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers (SWEF) now represent 469 land managers with three shared objectives of carbon neutrality, biodiversity recovery and cleaner […]

• 24 October 2023

  EFG BNG approach highlighted in Natural England blog

  This blog was originally posted by Natural England How are land managers embracing biodiversity net gain (BNG) while working towards their green strategies? In this guest blog, Digby Sowerby, Operations […]

• 11 October 2023

  Cranborne Chase: What’s in the Wylye

  The Wylye Valley Farmers are a farmer cluster group with 34 members covering over 12,000 hectares. They operate in the catchment of the River Wylye which is a nationally important chalk river […]