Tenant farmers join Community Forest scheme

MASSIVE REWILDING PROJECT WILL SEE 20,000 NEW TREES

- By LEWIS CLARKE

TWO first-time tenant farming families are building sustainable businesses with bold plans to rewild the natural landscape.

Jack and Alice Pemberton became tenants of 190-acre Ramsland Farm, located on the Flete Estate in South Devon, in 2024, with Will and Liv Norton taking on the lease of neighbouring 35-acre Hole Farm in 2025.

The couples have partnered with Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest to create tree planting schemes to support their two distinct businesses with a shared focus on recovering the land to be ecologically abundant and productive.

More than 20,000 trees will be planted across the two farms alongside schemes to reintroduce wildflower meadows, orchards, and increase hedgerow coverage, contributing to a total 65 tree-planting and woodland creation schemes planned for delivery by the Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest this season.

Jack and Alice, with their two daughters aged five and seven, moved to Ramsland Farm with the ambition of producing 100% pasture-fed beef and sheep while creating a beautiful, rich, biodiverse habitat on their land.