We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The land at Noakes Grove is owned by Organic Countryside CIC [that’s Walden Countryside’s official name]
Our main activities centre around our nature reserves but we are not only interested in preserving their wildlife. We are trying to make them more like the Walden Countryside of a century ago:
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Producing local food without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers
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Get people using the land: as volunteer workers or simply enjoying the countryside
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Encouraging children to enjoy, and learn about, their countryside
We are not just about creating and managing nature reserves, we want to:
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Persuade local councils and private land-owners to create more public access to areas of countryside
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Promote access to the countryside by campaigning for public rights of way to be kept accessible and adequately signed
Local Wildlife Sites
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There over a hundred local wildlife sites (mostly in private ownership, some publicly owned) in the northern half of Uttlesford.
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Walden Countryside aims to work with the owners of these sites to maintain and improve their value for wildlife
