Water potential on our farm...

Water is the lifeblood of the estate. However, we live in an area with ever increasing extremes. Flooding affects us and our local area, whilst drought is becoming increasingly frequent.

Tackling both ends of the water resource spectrum together allows us to link times of too much water, to times when we don't have enough. We call this our 'Whole Farm Reservoir' approach and it allows us to better understand how the Estate water stores might be managed in the future to retain and attenuate water, for the benefit of agriculture, the environment and local communities downstream.

Our recent modelling study, supported by both the Environment Agency and Essex and Suffolk Water, delivered by Atkins identifies and, importantly, seeks to quantify, how much influence on water flows (both high and low) we can have.

Check out the graphic above for the headlines.

We hope this approach will now be rolled out across other farms and land holdings, and will feed into a wider, more nature-based and holistic approach to water management on private land.

We continue to work with our partners in the Environment Agency and local water companies to develop projects and initiatives to harness some of the potential highlighted in the report. If you are also interested in working with us please get in touch.