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Our Farm
Our Great Grandad moved to Thorpe Farm as a tenant from Thornhill, almost 2 miles away. Since then, the farm has been passed down through the generations.
It's a great farm with rich soils situated on the south facing side of the Hope Valley, it really does grow some grass for the cows! Some of our fields have rare wild flowers growing in them, which are carefully managed to give the flowers a chance to thrive.
  
The stream that runs through the farm supports many little creatures, such as Water Voles which live in the banks. It starts under Bamford Edge and goes into the River Derwent followed by the Trent, then in to the North Sea from the Humber Estuary. It takes about 5 days for the water from our farm to reach the North Sea.
We have over 4 miles of hedgerows that shelter our cows from the elements and are home to every type of mammal and most of the birds we have in Britain. We put a lot of effort into managing our hedgerows. We never trim them during nesting time and when we do it’s in a 3 year rotation, allowing them to go bushy, making them ideal for bird nesting and letting the berries grow for birds to eat. When we plough a field we leave a 2 metre strip next to the hedge to protect it. Because of this and the thousands of worms in our rich soils our farm is a home and feeding area for over 74 types of bird including Little Owls, Curlews, Green Woodpeckers, Kestrels and lots of Swifts and House Martins who love the flies.
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