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Environmental Initiatives At Swangleys

18th April 2025

  Some of the local community have asked about the enormous mound of “soil” we have been building up on Swangleys Lane next to Baines

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Watton Road Looking Fresher ?

19th November 2024

We carried out another litter-pick on Watton Road a couple of weeks ago – from the crematorium all the way back to Knebworth itself. All

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Swangleys Harvest Begins

12th August 2024

Weather permitting, we are going to be starting harvest at Swangleys later this week.  This year the entire agricultural part of the farm is dedicated

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Harvest Is Coming

6th July 2023

We’re getting ourselves ready for the imminent start of Harvest 2023.  In the space of just a few weeks, we need to gather in 100%

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Sunflowers on Watton Road

1st August 2022

A lot of people have been saying how much they like the sunflowers on Watton Road opposite the Harwood Park crematorium. These sunflowers are part

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Rubbish Pick (again) on Watton Road

25th April 2022

We regularly put in intensive sessions clearing roadside rubbish from the Council’s verges around the farm.  This month we cleared Watton Road. I know a

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Ecology Update – new environmental initiative begins this winter

23rd December 2021

As part of our longterm personal project to further increase biodiversity at Swangleys, we have been working this year to qualify to enter Natural England’s

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Hay cut done……… Harvest-time nearly here

21st July 2021

At the end of last week, we finally had the chance to bring in our hay from the few grassland acres within the wider Swangleys

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Busy bees in May

21st May 2021

May is a peak month for bee swarming – and in the warm days earlier this month they seemed to be swarming more than usual.

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50mph Hedge Planting

17th February 2020

Last weekend –  at the very height of Storm Dennis –  in 50mph wind and driven rain , we somehow managed to complete the planting

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Flytipping incident in Swangleys Lane

12th September 2019

Thankyou to everyone who has reported to us or the council the substantial flytip that has appeared in recent weeks next to a small copse

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Harvest 2019

22nd August 2019

We’re almost at the end of this year’s harvest – having had to work around some very difficult wet and wild weather mid harvest –

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Hazardous hole at field edge near allotments – UPDATE

19th June 2019

UPDATE : Ringway have confirmed that they intend to repair this hole and will do so some time from mid August. No backstop date has

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Litter picking on Swangleys Lane

28th December 2018

We recently spent a full weekend morning on a mission of picking litter from the council’s verges along Swangleys Lane. We constantly remove rubbish that

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Mysterious gaps in our crops ?

12th October 2018

A few people have recently said they’ve noticed some strange lines of gaps in our crops in the current Google Maps satellite view of Woolmer

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Swangleys in the news

10th September 2018

During the peak of this hot summer, we were approached by the Welwyn Hatfield Times for feedback on the effects of the drought on farmers. 

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Wildlife Photography at Swangleys Farm

2nd September 2018

We were pleased to work this summer with local wildlife photographer and ecologist, Matt Livesey.  Matt was looking for a location to put up bird

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