A Week on the Estate: Kathryn’s Hall, Finn’s Leather & Andy’s Wire
The seasons are turning and meteorological winter will soon be upon us. The next week looks set to bring us mostly fine but cool weather with temperatures ranging from a weekend peak of 14C to a midweek low of 2C.
Out and about, our work to boost biodiversity across the Estate continues apace. In the Walled Garden, Clint Coughlan installed bat boxes to give our local population of flying mammals a boost. Further afield, Andy Bonnet used a clever assembly on the hitch of his compact tractor to remove some old-school barbed wire for reclamation.
As regular readers and visitors will have noticed, we’re progressively replacing barbed wire and wooden fencing with hedgerows that will act as wildlife corridors, both hosting and spreading biodiversity. Not only do our hedgerows protect against pollution, absorb carbon and make effective boundaries, but they also host 80% of our woodland birds, hedgehogs, dormice, butterflies and most bat species. Since 2019, we’ve planted 6km and we’re still going strong.
Our commercial hub is equally busy, building sustainable rural business. We’re proud to announce a brand-new range of Massingberd-Mundy Luxury Leather Goods celebrating the fifth quarter of our rare-breed, grass-fed Lincoln Red cattle.
Our Lincoln Red beef and dairy herd is the keystone of our regenerative approach. We began the process of leather-making in 2021 to minimise waste and embrace all that our land produces. The ‘fifth quarter’ is the traditional term for the parts of an animal not used as meat.
