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The Deeping St Nicholas Wind Turbines give £12,000 every yearto the village for a Community project, an Energy saving project or anEnvironmental project. Five years ago this barn was in a bad state o
2010 and 2011 were good years for sunflowers for Vine House Farm - we're one of the largest growers of sunflowers in Britain - however this year has been a different story. The cold, wet summer we hav
Corn Buntings in Deeping Fen like to nest near to a crop of winter barley as it gives them a food source for themselves and their young at the end of June and early July until wheat growing in the fie
Being the first back from Africa usually means you get to bag the territory of your choice, however this year it might not have been such a good idea as over last weekend in the unusually cold and wet
Yesterday I was there and saw the following birds: 2 Oystercatchers, 4 Lapwing, 3 Mute Swans, 14 Wigeon, 12 Mallard, 12 Tufted Ducks, 3 Shoveler, 35 Greylag Geese, 200 Black Headed Gulls, 3 Jackdaws,
Nicholas Watts, along with his wife, Anne Watts attended the 2011 Food & Farming Industry Awards on the 9th of December at the House of Commons and to their delight came away as winners of the Rur
Lucy Watts, Manager at Vine House Farm, presented a cheque for a staggering £136.807 to Chief Executives of The Wildlife Trusts in recognition of the vital work they carry out for wildlife throughout
Research by the British Trust for Ornithology's garden bird feeding survey showed that the number of different birds visiting the average feeding station has risen from16 in the 1970s to 23 last winte
Nicholas Watts, owner of Vine House Farm in Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, emerged victorious at the FWAG Silver Lapwing Awards winning the Silver Lapwing Trophy and a cheque for £1,000. Adam Hen
There is no doubt about the fact that GM crops give farmers an increased yield per hectare but wildlife very quickly vanishes from the area. My experiences are from several visits to Argentina where G
On Sunday 18th September the judges for the Silver Lapwing competition came to judge Vine House Farm. It is run by the Farming and Wildlife Group , known as FWAG and sponsored by Waitrose. Vine House
I live in South Lincolnshire and have kept a nature diary since the 22nd November 1959 and in most years I have recorded the arrival and departure of Swallows here in South Lincolnshire. Arrival date
Having found a young swallow on the floor of our workshop here at Vine House Farm, I fetched a ladder and took it back up to the nest above - it was cold and not very lively, and I didn’t really thi
In times of low rainfall, ground feeding birds such as Blackbirds are often unable to find sufficient natural food and in particular earthworms, as the worms are well below ground level and in damper
We still have a few Whooper Swans feeding on the rape field at Baston Fen. The most I have counted is 14 but there is a different number every day. The number is constant through the day so all I can
Defra have published their Wild Bird Index for 2009 (from 1970) and results indicate a decline in many farmland birds, woodland birds, water and wetland birds, seabirds and wintering waterbirds breedi