Sustainability & Environment

Worth Farms takes its environmental responsibility seriously. It is our policy to continually improve our farming systems and working standards to meet our environmental, legal and social responsibilities. We have therefore participated in numerous schemes and initiatives:-

  1. 1995 Joined Leaf and completed our first LEAF audit
  2. 1996 Became a LEAF demonstration Farm
  3. 1997 Pilot farm for Sainsbury’s biodiversity action plan
  4. 2003 Completed accreditations for applicable crop assurance schemes
  5. 2005 Entry Level Stewardship agreement commenced
  6. 2008 Completed Marks & Spencer field to fork standard
  7. 2008 Awarded LEAF Marque
  8. 2010 Renewed Entry Level Stewardship 2010 – 2015

LEAF has provided an important framework which has assisted us to identify our environmental responsibilities and help us set our environmental and social standards to meet the expectation of our customers and stakeholders. We became a LEAF demonstration farm in 1995 hosting visits to in excess of 1,000 visitors to our farm in the first five years.

Continual improvement for our environment identified from the LEAF audits has enabled us to meet the increasing standards expected from our customers and environmental & crop assurance schemes.

Our commitment to the Entry Level Scheme funded by Natural England has provided winter habitat from overwinter stubbles. The scheme has also improved habitat for nesting birds and provided a sustainable food source from rotational cutting of hedges and mowing of dykes. The farm has an extensive area of conservation wheat headlands providing a further food source for birds from insects and wild flower seeds.

As part of our efforts to maintain and improve our environment we :-

  • Plan our crop rotation and variety choice to minimise use of fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides
  • Maintain and enhance the structure of our fertile soils through sustainable crop rotation and well managed operations
  • Acknowledge our responsibility to minimise energy use in all of our operations
  • Minimise waste and recycle wherever possible.

Anything that cannot viably be recycled will be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way Undertake to maintain and improve the natural landscape of the land we farm in such a way as to encourage wildlife and wildlife habitats, whilst practising modern farming techniques

We farm in a sustainable, responsible and sympathetic way without jeopardising our productivity. We take our environmental and social responsibilities seriously, it is our policy to continually improve our practices and be sensitive to our environment and ecosystem.