Land management methods and benefits

• Hedge maintenance involves cutting between October and March to avoid affecting nesting birds, increasing biodiversity by providing food sources such as invertebrates, nesting sites, and biological corridors.
• Beetle banks involve building a mound of earth all along the field, planting grass, and encouraging invertebrates.
• Invertebrates predate on crop pests, contributing to natural pest control and reducing the need for pesticides.
• Invertebrates are also a food source for birds, which also predate on crop pests.
• Field buffer strips are natural areas left to grow, absorbing agricultural chemicals like fertilisers and pesticides so they don't wash into rivers, providing a natural food source, shelter from predators, and breeding grounds.
• In field trees increase biodiversity, provide food sources, nesting sites, and dead wood for detritivores.
• Sky lark plots involve leaving a set area without cultivation for ground nesting birds.
• Over wintering stubbles involve not harvesting all stems and ploughing up soil, leaving dead stems, reducing soil erosion, and providing food for detritivores and seed eaters.
• Stone walls are excellent for reptiles.
• Ditch management is excellent for water voles and amphibians.