Environment
Turfland and the Environment
Turfland pride themselves in being custodians of ecology and the environment. We take great care of all the land we own and implement a unique Wildlife Conservation Policy.
Special high flotation tyres are fitted to all our tractors and equipment to avoid soil compaction, no heavy lorries ever go onto our fields. We employ soil conservation techniques and judicial use of fertilisers and chemicals so as not to adversely affect the environment.
We adopt the guidelines for 'Field Margins' laid down by DEFRA. A field margin is a strip of land lying between the crop and field boundary. The field margins can be managed to create ideal conditions that benefit many key farmland species. These include the brown hare, water voles, barn owls, corn buntings and many more.
Existing hedgerows have been nurtured and never cut until young birds have fledged. Bird and butterfly gardens have been planted to provide food and habitat for wildlife. Ponds are monitored to ensure they are a healthy environment, at our Dutton depot we have an abundance of crested newts.
Our turf maintenance team are alert to the presence of nesting hares and often small islands of long grass are visible in our turf fields where young leverets have been discovered.
Our coastal turf growing areas provide grazing for thousand of migrant geese which make for a spectacular site in the winter months.
This year Turfland have introduced a scheme to help save the Horse Chestnut tree which is being wiped out by a devastating disease which wiped out an estimated 40,000 trees during 2008 alone. Every customer ordering online during spring will be receiving a Horse Chestnut tree to plant and we intend to send out around 2000 of these.
So why should you choose Turfland? Because you know you’ll be in safe hands.
