Linking the past, present and future with a busy wildlife corridor

It may be wintry out there, but work never stops at Halnaker Hill Farm! Our teams are working hard to connect old and new woodland by planting thousands of shrubs and hedges to create a wildlife corridor.

The work, which involves hand planting between two and three thousand new shrubs and hedges, along with some woodland trees, will link a mature wood, known as the Guinea Fowl Wood, with seven hectares of newly-planted native woodland.

When mature, this will create a six-metre-wide, 700-metre-long corridor running right through the middle of our farm. The corridor, much thicker than a normal hedge, will greatly benefit biodiversity by encouraging birds, bats, insects and mammals, and complements 6.5 km of hedges already planted.

Since beginning work at the farm in 2024, we’ve planted more than 20,000 trees, helping to return this previously intensively farmed land to its natural state. The project is partly inspired by maps from the late 18th century – so the way this corridor will bring the past, present and future together feels very appropriate.

Our renaturing of the land is creating more than 850 biodiversity net gain units, available now, in one of the UK’s largest ever biodiversity land banks when measured by the number of units.

To enquire about BNG units for sale, see here.

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