Tag: Denmark Farm Conservation Centre

This week we are delighted to welcome Lulu to the team – our new Facilities Manager … Having moved to West Wales two years ago from Bristol, I have been holding out for a chance to get involved with Denmark Farm. I have kept my eyes peeled for the right job ever since and to […]

Every household in Wales can collect and plant a tree as over 50 hubs open across the country Denmark Farm is taking part in the My Tree, Our Forest initiative, an ambitious Welsh Government and Coed Cadw project which will offer every household in Wales a tree, free of charge. Denmark Farm is one of […]

Hello I’m Ryan. I have recently joined Denmark Farm staff team as the new Nature Reserve & Site Volunteer Manager. I am very excited to be working at such a beautiful site, which has been such an amazing success story for nature and conservation. I’ve been visiting Denmark Farm for over 10 years, either attending […]

A short blogpost by guest Juliet Fay … I’ve always been drawn to ash without knowing much about it, other than the fact you can burn it green. Recently I got curious to learn more, perhaps inspired by the awareness that we are losing our Ash trees to Ash Dieback disease. Ash has different symbolism […]

A guest blogpost written by Deborah Camp, one of our Conservation Volunteers at Denmark Farm, after taking part in a Stone and Soil Banking course, along the historic Green Lane, during June 2021. I have always wanted to have a go at dry stone walling so when this course came up I was first in […]

You may have heard these expressions – ‘Blind as a bat’, ‘Bats in your hair’, ‘Bats in the belfry’! Well actually they can see, and they don’t fly in your hair as they use echolocation to find their way around in the dark to find their food and to avoid bumping into things. Also, they […]

A short blogpost written by recent guest Sue Rickard Staying at Denmark Farm is to be immersed in nature. We were there in May when everywhere was full of spring flowers and the new leaves on the beech trees were soft and silky, creating great canopies of greenness that one could stare into, dreaming of […]

After three long months of complete shut down at Denmark Farm we are raring to get up and running again. We are, however, sadly aware that we need to wait a little longer, until it is safe, to welcome everyone back. Then we will be ‘Good to Go’, picking up where we left off last […]

There is still time to grab a Green Gift Voucher for all your nature loving friends and family. Denmark Farm Gift Vouchers now include, not only courses and events, but also stays in our Eco Lodge, Dormitory or Eco Campsite, plus anything purchased from our Little Green Shop (actual shop at Denmark Farm). If you […]

Akamuti is a family business based in Wales since 2004.  We are passionate about all things natural & produce a range of skincare which reflects this. All our ingredients are 100% natural & are ethically sourced.    Denmark Farm shares so many of our own ethics … a passion for preserving precious ecosystems & nature […]

Denmark Farm is now closed to residential guests, and all courses, events and volunteer activities are cancelled until further notice. This happens to be one of the strangest and most painful blogposts I have ever written. It is soul destroying to put a halt on all the positive activities which are due to take place […]

Aline Denton began volunteering for nature at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre in the late 1990’s and has recently returned after a short break. Here she explains more about her volunteer role, and highlights some of the other volunteering opportunities at Denmark Farm. I first started volunteering at Denmark Farm in the late 1990s after an […]

You may be asking ‘what is a BioBlitz?’ Well, it’s a day of recording all of the various species of wildlife found. This is what we have recently done at Denmark Farm on Sunday 28th July 2019. What a fantastic day we all had! We worked closely with West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre (WWBIC) who […]

We’re delighted to announce that we have been awarded £49,981.37 from The Landfill Disposals Tax Grants to help wildlife and improve biodiversity at Denmark Farm. This, Landfill Disposals Tax Grants, will support our new two year project Cadw Natur Mewn Cof ~ Nature in Mind, starting during the Summer 2019. The grant will provide us with […]

A guest blog by Lampeter Seed Library… Lampeter Seed Library are pleased to be building on the success of our joint venture of a seed-saving workshop at Denmark Farm in September last year. We had prepared for it by planting up some dedicated beds with plants left to go to seed, some of which we […]

Are you interested in learning more about wildlife in stunning locations or thinking of a change of career enhancing your own professional development in Field and Conservation Ecology?                     Did you know that Denmark Farm Conservation Centre is one of a handful of interesting venues, in […]

The Shared Earth Trust is a small independent charity which was set up in 1987. The aim was to restore 40 acres of what was once an intensively managed farm with little wildlife into a variety of habitats which are now a haven for wildlife. In fact, over the last year or so we have […]

A MIXED PICTURE FOR THE BREEDING BIRDS OF DENMARK FARM Guest blogpost written by Ian Morris This year a total of 36 species of bird were detected during a series of surveys. This compares with 39 in 2016 and 45 in 2012. The overall total number of breeding pairs has also declined very slightly over […]

A special guest blog post by Richard Bambrey What’s That Box? It’s not a funny new kind of bird box! It is in fact a bait box for honeybees that has been put up at Denmark Farm. Why? For many years it has been assumed that the British black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera or AMM) […]

The Proclaimers once sang about walking 500 miles and then, if that wasn’t enough, apparently wanted to “walk 500 more”. Whilst the melody was great, the idea was plainly ridiculous. Obviously what they meant to sing was “If I could walk ten and a half miles, and I could walk ten and a half more, […]

Guest Blog Post by Josie Bridges of The Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT). I am incredibly pleased that Denmark Farm have agreed to adopt one of our Pine martens, and as one of their closest they have decided upon K(16)2. In the coming months they will be running a competition to give him or her a […]

Last weekend we were swooped upon by an enthusiastic group of mammal detectives, who couldn’t wait to find out what was on the menu in our Owl Pellet Analysis workshop.  Each armed with a forensic tool kit of tray, gloves, tweezers and tooth-brush, they set to work to discover what the barn owls at Denmark […]

Ever heard of Shinrin Yoku or Forest Bathing? What is it and why are more and more people around the world starting to practice it? The term Shinrin Yoku is a Japanese practice which translates in English to ‘Forest Bathing’. There is no single practice that is officially Shinrin Yoku but it is more of […]

We’re delighted to announce that Denmark Farm is being supported by the Co-op store in Lampeter, as part of the Co-op Local Community Fund. The Co-op gives 1% of the amount spent by it’s members to community projects, and we are very pleased to have been selected as one of it’s local causes for the […]