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        • Discover the Blackdown Hills

        • Blackdown Hills National Landscape
        • Landscape
        • Habitats
        • Wildlife
        • Farming
        • Community
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        • Heritage and history
        • Teachers' resources
  • Visit

        • Visit the Blackdown Hills

        • Places to see
        • Easy to access
        • Viewpoints
        • Heritage
        • Wildlife sites
        • Events
        • Walks and rides
          • Walking
          • Easy routes
          • Cycling routes
          • Horse riding
        • Maps
        • Transport
        • Visitor advice
        • 30 ways to explore
        • Explore & create for children
  • About us

        • About Blackdown Hills National Landscape

        • What is a National Landscape?
        • What we do
        • How we are funded
        • Blackdown Hills Partnership
        • Management Group
        • Meet the team
        • Jobs
        • Contact us
  • Our work

        • Our work

        • Management plan
        • Planning
        • Annual reviews
        • Document Library
        • Our projects
        • Current Projects
          • Connecting the Culm
          • ELMS Tests and Trials
          • Farming & Woodland Group
          • Landscape Enhancement Initiative
          • Nature Recovery Plan
          • Somerset Nature Connections
          • Triple Axe project
          • Woods for Water
        • Completed Projects
          • Blackdown Hills Natural Futures
          • Catchment Communities Conference
          • Corry and Coly Natural Flood Management
          • Culm Community Crayfish project
          • Culm Enhancement Project
          • Discovering Dunkeswell Abbey
          • Dunkeswell War Stories
          • Field boundaries & linear landscape features
          • Nature and Wellbeing
          • Metal Makers
  • Get involved

        • Get involved

        • Volunteering
        • Wildlife sightings
        • Community projects
        • Find funding
          • Blackdown Hills Countryside Fund
          • Sustainable Development Fund
        • Donate
        • Farming in Protected Landscapes
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Farming

  • Environmental Land Management System
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Farming is fundamental to the character of the Blackdown Hills National Landscape. Today’s landscape is testimony to the stewardship of generations of farmers and landowners. In the Blackdown Hills there is a tradition of small-scale family farms based on mixed livestock husbandry.
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