Pond restoration for wildlife: a farmer’s personal account

On the 11th June, many local people enjoyed the wonderful ponds on Nick Anema’s farm as part of LEAF’s Open Farm Sunday 2017. But his ponds weren’t always like this… as you can read below in Nicks’s own account of being personally involved in his own farmland pond restoration project. Nick Anema is a farmer…

What a difference a winter makes…

Following a seemingly endless wet winter, we are finally back in British Summer Time and the deep, clear, oxygen-rich waters in the restored ponds at Heydon, Norfolk are now ready to be re-colonised. Last September, our Pond Restoration Research Group undertook an apparently near impossible challenge – to restore seven ponds in seven days. Kicking off on the…