Demand Rockets for Anaerobic Digestion Plant Sites 2012-May-11
Increasing demand for sites for Anaerobic Digestion plants could see farmers and landowners across the country being approached by developers looking to build a plant on their land - providing the farmer with a significant rental income.

Farmers Working Hard on the Trout Beck 2012-May-08
Farmers in the Trout Beck area near Dufton in the Eden Valley are working hard to protect this lovely river which is important for its good populations of trout, salmon and other wildlife.

Transylvanian Visit to North Pennines Hay Meadows 2012-May-08
A group from the Romanian region of Transylvania will be seeing at first hand this month the flower-rich hay meadows of the North Pennines, meeting some of the people that manage them and finding out more about the work of the AONB Partnership’s Hay Time project.

Revolutionary ‘Lily Pad’ Eco Home Gets Go Ahead 2012-May-03
A revolutionary ‘energy neutral’ eco house which will produce its own electricity and sell the excess it creates back into the grid has been granted planning permission.

Developing Greening Options for Northern Europe 2012-May-01
NFU Scotland and EU’s northern Member States meet to discuss ways in which the next Common Agricultural Policy can meet higher environmental standards and still deliver on food production and rural economic growth.

Dry Stone Walling Crash Course in Yorkshire Dales 2012-Apr-25
Students have been given a crash course in dry stone walling to help repair damaged field boundaries in the Yorkshire Dales.

New Biogas Opportunity is Good to Digest 2012-Apr-18
thanks to pioneering work by engineers, a breakthrough in the production of biogas using small scale slurry digesters has been achieved, reports Alistair Fell of H&H Renewables, in Carlisle.

Lloyds TSB Agriculture Increases Farm Scale Renewable Energy Project Support 2012-Apr-16
Lloyds TSB Agriculture and Bank of Scotland are enhancing their support for farmers seeking funding for renewable energy projects by training its dedicated agricultural business managers and widening the scope of their lending assessments for renewable energy projects.

Look Out for Lambs and Lapwings In The North Pennines
2012-Apr-03
People enjoying the North Pennines countryside are being asked to take special care during spring, the critical time when both wildlife and farm livestock will be rearing their young.

Testing Time for Dry Stone Walling Trainees 2012-Mar-29
Two trainees will be learning the skills of the dry stone waller this summer as part of the AONB Partnership’s four-year Heritage Landscape Skills project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Pennines Peatland Programme Takes National Climate Award 2012-Mar-20
The North Pennines AONB Partnership has won a top national award for the part it is playing in tackling the effects of climate change.

Natural England Helping Farmers Deal with the Drought
2012-Mar-09
Natural England is ensuring that the appropriate Environmental Stewardship (ES) derogations are made available as quickly as possible to farmers who are in agri-environment schemes.

Farmers Invited to Put in a Kissing Gate this Leap Year
2012-Feb-29
Today (29th February), when tradition gives the green light for role reversal in proposals of marriage, Natural England is suggesting that farmers in England could help even more people fall in love with the countryside by installing a ‘kissing gate’ on their land this Leap Year.

Country Access System Needs to be Modernised 2012-Feb-24
The CLA this week published The Right Way Forward: The CLA’s common sense approach to access in the countryside – calling for a shake-up of the access and public rights of way system.