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Hill Top Farm Sustainable Food and Farming Experience
June 11, 2019
An eco-day with a difference
This is an educational experience with a difference. You can join our day long event or turn it into a mini-break, exploring the Yorkshire Dales, by booking into the farms comfortable bunk barn accommodation. Immerse yourself in the farm lifestyle and the local stunning surrounds.
It’s an exclusive opportunity to visit the well known Hill Top Farm in Malham Village, nested in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.
If you’re deeply concerned about the environment and climate change, but confused about how you can make food and lifestyle choices that support the regeneration of our planet ecosystem, then this sustainable food and farming experience is a wonderful way to learn more.
Hill Top Farm is home to the fourth generation of the Heseltine family to farm in Malham. Neil Heseltine and partner Leigh are passionate about developing the farm to ensure it’s as regenerative and nature friendly as possible, whilst still remaining true to the important cultural heritage of traditional farming methods.
The stunning farmland landscape is largely situated at high altitude in the wild and rugged limestone uplands, so hardy native breeds have been selected to graze this land; breeds which have evolved to cope with the weather and marginal grassland of the windswept hills.
What You’ll Learn:
People who have no direct connection to land often feel they have no way of helping to influence land management. In fact, everyone has an important part to play in saving our world.
Lifestyle and eating choices are the main driver that can influence a dramatic change, but to save it you must first understand it. This is where it gets confusing. We are often told that eating a vegan diet is the best way to help nature and that grazing livestock are destroying important habitats.
Plants and animals are intertwined in the ecosystem and cannot be separated from each other unless we produce our foods using intensive agricultural practices that harm the planet.
It’s certainly true that in many cases, our subsidy systems along with public demand for cheap food has driven production to environmentally destructive levels. Livestock however are a tool, it’s the management that matters. Under poor management they can be highly destructive, but under good management they are a powerful tool to regenerative soils and increase biodiversity.
An Overview:
Experience Style: Active and Educational
This event is a mix of classroom and outdoors learning. Learn about farming with nature, soil health, climate change and sustainable food production whilst taking in views of the valley. We are offering basic accommodation for 1 or 2 nights for those coming from further away or those who would like to spend an extra day walking in the Dales. The accomodation we offer is managed by Neil and Leigh and sited on the farm.
Accommodation level: Comfortable but basic
Physical Rating: Medium
This experience will involve walking over rough and steep terrain so a reasonable level of fitness will be required. If you have any queries or concerns about this please contact us directly at info@wilderculture.com
Tickets:
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