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“Bristol’s last working farm”: A farm for the future

Sustainable Food Trust

Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners. The constant threat of loss This year, for the first time in probably hundreds of years, hay has not been made on Yew Tree Farm’s 13 acres of meadow.

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