Bringing more farmer voices in the local nature recovery strategy
At our farmer and landowner event in February, we were asked to include more farmer voices in the strategy preparation as farmers, landowners and land managers are a key stakeholder for nature recovery. We have now formed a farmer clusters group with farmers and cluster facilitators to help with the strategy preparation process. Farmer clusters are groups on conservation-minded farmers who share knowledge and work together, sometimes with the help of a facilitator.
They are working on:
pressures and opportunities on nature from a farming perspective
a draft priority on sustainable farming practices
how farm businesses might want to use the Nature Recovery Dorset brand
mapping activities for nature
opportunities to engage with others in the farming sector that we are following up
Bringing all our groups together
It's time to start bringing together all the work our advisory groups have been doing to prepare different parts of the strategy. On 23 May, 50 members of the Dorset local nature recovery strategy advisory groups attended a workshop to go through and input into:
the vision for Nature Recovery Dorset
the draft priorities for nature recovery
the practical activities that will help achieve the priorities
the range of detail and information for the mapping
identifying the process of joining the Nature Recovery Dorset network
Dorset local nature recovery strategy progress
the draft nature recovery priorities and activities are being refined following May workshop feedback
the farmer clusters group have inputted pressures and opportunities, a farming perspective
