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It is a diversified farm, producing crops and livestock, processing and marketing its food, and with additional enterprises. On the site are
Sheepdrove Event Venue, facilities for on-site butchery, organic herb plots, and rented housing.
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Kindersleys established Sheepdrove Organic Farm during the late 1990s after the acquisition of land neighbouring their home at Sheepdrove Farmhouse. The holding was put through organic conversion under
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The farm is situated on 900 hectares of chalk downland in an area that crosses the boundary of
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The reedbed water treatment system: waste water from the farm, conference centre, processing unit and houses is treated in the
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is a farm near
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