Our farm is a sum of its parts and apart from the blackcurrants, apples and vineyards, we are also traditional, conventional farmers where we have a range of other enterprises that complement the fruit business.
Arable
We have an area of arable which rotates through environmental crops or arable (including wheat, feed beans, oil seed rape, barley and oats). These crops are grown in co-operation with other local farmers and the produce is usually sold into the local grain market.
Woodlands and Pasture
We have 150 acres of woodlands which are sustainably managed under forestry grant schemes. We rent out pasture for extensively grazed sheep, we have 6 large holiday lets and other tourism activities, including our on-estate e-bike rides.
Tourism
At White Heron Estate we have 6 holiday lets, sleeping 2 – 22 where we offer a luxury countryside, self-catering accommodation with lots of extras – swimming pool, table tennis, hottubs, sauna and even a squash court at one of our properties. Our e-bike and walking tours that illustrate our exemplar farming are also very popular, as are our vineyard feasts!
Poultry Farming
We are also suppliers of chickens into retail and we do this under the assured chicken production/red tractor banner. These chickens are inside our large sheds where all the heat is supplied by biomass burning their own manure and all the resultant ash is exported to other parts of the country. They are ventilated automatically as well as fed and watered.