Summer Family Wildlife Walks

Every Friday throughout the summer holidays we invite you to come along for a free family friendly wildlife walk around Bere Marsh Farm, Dorset, for some summer wildlife spotting, and to learn how the farm is managed for the benefit of wildlife.

You'll also get the chance to:

Explore our new orchard, learn about the bee hives.
Hear birdsong as you walk down the tree-lined Old Railway Line - now the Angela Hughes Nature Reserve.
Spot dragonflies and damselflies next to the River Stour.

If you're lucky, you may even catch a glimpse of a slow worm or get the chance to see some of the marvellous moths we capture in our moth trap (weather permitting).

Children will be given a spotter sheet each to keep them busy along the way!

Meet outside the CRT office at Bere Marsh Farm at 2pm. The walk will finish at the Dutch barn where we will have simple refreshments available to enjoy and a display table of fascinating wildlife objects to talk about.

Dates available

Friday 19th August

Friday 26th August

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Thanks to generous donations from the public, we've made 20 wildlife boxes for dormice for several of our Countryside Regeneration Trust properties.
Withie beds provide new habitats for wildlife

Thanks to money raised in our Twelve Gifts of Christmas campaign, we were thrilled to buy new withies to plant in our osier beds at Bere Marsh Farm. These willows will help provide important habitat for wildlife.
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School trips on the farm
Volunteer with the CRT

Would you like to help wildlife and do your bit to create a landscape bursting with life? To enjoy quiet time connecting with nature to benefit your wellbeing, or to get stuck into exciting conservation projects with a friendly team? To learn new skills or develop existing ones? Whatever motivates you to consider volunteering, we’d love to have you in our team.
What We Do

The CRT promotes nature-friendly farming to help reverse biodiversity decline and combat climate change. We believe nature is integral to good farming and we protect, promote and regenerate our land and all life on it. We put our philosophy into practice on over 2,000 acres of working farms, small-holdings and woodland across England.
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The UK has 6 native reptile species including the curious slow-worm (Anguis fragilis). Although serpent-like in appearance, slow-worms are in fact limbless lizards and an amazing example of de-evolution.
Wildlife & Farms

To achieve our vision of a living, working countryside we have purchased 18 sites across the UK, each with their own unique ecosystem and biodiversity.
Conservation Volunteer

This is your chance to get 'down and dirty' to help CRT improve the habitats and environment on our farms, with a wide range of conservation projects and initiatives.
Bere Marsh Farm

Mixed farmland, Dorset
Robin Page

Co-Founder
David Mills MBE

Trustee
Regenerative Farming & CRT

Since our inception we have been working tirelessly to achieve our vision of a living, working countryside, and that is not changing, but in a world that’s in its sixth mass extinction we must evolve to fight this threat.