Guest Speakers

Richard Fuller - Farming in Harmony at Givendale Yorkshire Wildlife

Richard Fuller, is an award-winning farmer conservationist and author whose sensitive response to the rush to modernise farming practices in the seventies was ahead of its time. For the last 35 years he has managed Givendale, a 12000 acre livestock and arable farm on the Yorkshire Wolds. The farm has attractive landscapes and over the years Richard has developed new wildlife habitats with the help of Stewardship grants. His interest in all forms of wildlife triggered a desire to record on film the many and varied species of wildlife attracted to the farm. The farm won several local and national conservation awards and in the mid nineties Richard published two books featuring a number of his own photographs. There are now over 20 miles of hedgerows and field margins, 100 acres of woodlands, 4 ponds and 160 acres of species-rich chalk grasslands. The farm is now in the Higher Lever Stewardship Scheme.